Mathematicians show “soft cell” shapes are abundant in natural world. Soft cells are described as natural tiles with curved edges—a stark contrast to the mathematical solutions for creating ...

“We chose the fan-shaped tile to create an interesting edge detail and mimicked that shape with the shells on the mirror,” she says. She then matched the floor tile to the walls to envelop the ...

Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.