As smart as we as a species are, Mother Nature almost always seems to have us beat. It’s true for things like brain surgery ...

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 ...

Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books. Based on recent calculations, mathematicians have described a new classification they now call a “soft cell.” ...

Say hello to the scutoid, a brand new shape that has been discovered in our cells. This addition to geometry finally explains how nature packs cells efficiently into three-dimensional structures.

A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven. ... Guan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who approached the problem with a technique based on physics rather than geometry.