The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This is one of the basic principles of Euclidean geometry. But we live on a spherical Earth, so we cannot travel the straight line path ...

Since Robert Hooke studied cork cell patterns in 1665, scientists have been puzzled by why cells form such ordered structures. The laws underlying this type of organization are universal, and we study ...

Is it possible to fill space “cubically” with shapes that act like spheres? A proof at the intersection of geometry and theoretical computer science says yes. In the fourth century, the Greek ...

Henry Segerman and Saul Schleimer paint beautiful shadows based on the maths of stereographic projection, a method originally used by cartographers to map the Earth Like a Halloween pumpkin, the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Shrink an electrical switch down to the size of a single molecule and the current flowing through it becomes hostage to geometry. At that scale, the signal depends not just on ...