Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

This tutorial offers constructive feedback on character drawing, specifically focusing on the importance of using simple ...

A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that ...

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...

A new exhibition at London's Somerset House invites visitors to step into the wacky world of M.C. Escher, where nothing is ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. This paper examines how geometric regularities in abstract ...

Coordinating dozens of muscles typically requires complex neural control, and it is unclear how much of that coordination must come from the brain versus the body’s structure. Professor Mitra Hartmann ...

Numerous 3D shape descriptors have been proposed in recent years, among which spectral descriptors have gained significant prominence. However, widely used spectral signatures, such as the Heat Kernel ...

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Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. This paper examines how geometric regularities in abstract shapes (e.g., parallelograms, kites) are perceived and processed in the human ...

Photo by Jeff Tome Pictured are bees on hexagonal honeycomb. Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones based on natural ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?