By building computer models, researchers came up with six 2D configurations that seemed likely to work as self-folding 3D structures. They then tested the shapes with colleagues from Johns Hopkins ...

Geometric designs dating back 1,000 years could help create futuristic materials that might one day be used to build new medical technologies and advanced satellites alike. In a presentation earlier ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fano varieties are known as the basic “atomic structure” of geometry, but are notoriously difficult to ...

According to a widely accepted axiom, people most dread public speaking and math. Buildings are actually a range of mathematical applications, and if you talk about them — voilà! — you are doing ...

Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs ...