Nature has invented countless types of pointy appendages, and scientists have long sought to explain what makes these ...
Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...
The squiggly trunks and branches of Black Locust stand out in the winter landscape. Photos by Katie Finch Leaves are probably the most common feature used to identify trees. But in winter, when so ...
Mathematicians have long been fascinated by the geometry of natural forms. And the hexagon reigns supreme.
We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape to mechanical wear. Most of us have been stung by a bee, bitten by an ...
The new metamaterials can learn to take on any shape – here, they have learned the letters that spell ‘learn’, or in Dutch: ‘leren’. In a new Nature Physics publication, University of Amsterdam ...