It is no secret that mathematics follows certain laws of nature and that these patterns can be seen over and over again in ...

In a presentation earlier this ... losing their original shape. That’s because stretching a material can alter its geometric substructure. When something like a rubber band is pulled, that ...

Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) ...

Last spring, Dr. Dehaene and his Ph.D. student Mathias Sablé-Meyer published, with collaborators, a study that compared the ability of humans and baboons to perceive geometric shapes. The team ...

They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set of geometric shapes, and have an affinity for geometric regularity – shapes with consistent features, like squares, as opposed to irregular ones ...