Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) ...

Geometric frustration governs shape selection in fibrous materials ... of identical molecules into twisted rods (circular cross-section) or ribbons (narrowed cross-section).

In a cross-section of a chambered shell, the segmented shapes appear to have corners, but the 3D geometry of the chambers does not have any. Krisztina Regõs and Lajos Czegledi The team created an ...

They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set of geometric shapes, and have an affinity for geometric regularity – shapes with consistent features, like squares, as opposed to irregular ones ...

Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books ... of 2D soft cells in nature include an onion’s cross-section, biological tissue cells, and islands ...

A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not ...

Squares, triangles, circles - these geometric shapes appear everywhere in art and architecture going back all through human history. Geometric regularity seems to be something that the human brain ...