We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape ...

These are not the kinds of objects that concern Scott Sheffield. Sheffield, a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies shapes that are constructed by random ...

Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the molecular level, of DNA, the very blueprint of life itself. Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the ...

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones must find a secret chamber that contains the legendary Ark of the Covenant. To identify its exact location, Indy must uncover a special map that’s only ...