Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...

Using a new algorithmic model, the mathematicians examined what one can do using shapes that follow these new rules. Tiles ...

The 3D illustrations are a lot more expressive and playful than the flat and desaturated style that Microsoft has been using ...

Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and ...

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

After rolling out the simplified bottom bar on mobile, a Google Maps redesign of pins introduces new colors and shapes. The iconic pin shape with a shaper point at the bottom is gone, though it ...

The researchers matched the 3D shapes to the structures of proteins ... “This is getting into a very exciting area because there is growing evidence that the innate immunity of complex organisms ...

To answer that question, the team turned to an open-access research platform called AlphaFold, which predicts the 3D shape of a protein ... into a very exciting area because there is growing ...