A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

Houndstooth is not a motif associated with Indian silk weaving. Its roots are in Scottish wool textiles, where the motif ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

As a proof-of-concept test device, the team developed a wearable ring with an embedded, miniaturized accelerometer that captured and successfully communicated gesture-based movements over a network.

500-year-old puzzle- Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is one of the most analysed drawings of history, yet scholars struggled to decode the precise proportions he used for the arms and legs. The ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...