Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set ...

However, multiple occurrences of these patterns means that the shape can be further broken down into smaller components. Fano discovered the first of these “atomic” shapes back in the 1930s .

Geometric shapes appear below the Megaloceros, a giant extinct deer, in the Lascaux, France, cave paintings, which are thought to be 17,000 years old.

The mathematical study of how repeating tiles fit together usually involves pointed shapes like triangles or squares, but these aren't normally found in the natural world By Alex Wilkins 26 ...

How Scientists Find Beauty in Mathematical Chaos As Einstein himself said, "The greatest scientists are always artists as well." Monisha Ravisetti Former Science Writer ...

They thought they could characterize mathematical shapes by synthesizing numerous local measurements. But newly discovered, paradoxically curved spaces show that this isn’t always possible. “Things ...