Paleodictyon is a hexagonal, honeycomb-like network of burrows found in marine sediments going all the way back to the ...

Little red dots should shine in X-rays if black holes power them. None did, until Chandra found one 11.8 billion light-years ...

The Red Fort blast chargesheet details the vehicle’s route, traffic conditions, casualties and damage, revealing the urban ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

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What if I told you some cities were designed like giant works of art, best seen from the sky? Now drift over The Circus in Bath. A perfect stone circle. Elegant. Calm. Built in the 1700s and inspired ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring geometric pattern known as a Voronoi diagram, something typically associated ...

The general principles responsible for bacterial organization at the collective level are unclear. This work shows that large-scale pattern formation among diverse bacteria is explained by geometric ...

Ostrich eggs are huge. Big enough, in fact, for ancient humans to use them as primitive writing surfaces for showcasing their mathematical prowess, according to a new study. The paper, published ...