The “moving sofa problem,” a puzzle that has remained unresolved since it was introduced in 1966 and memorably illustrated in ...

In 1867, French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet proved something that seemed like common sense: if you know how far apart ...

A hypercar that starts with suspension geometry instead of styling sketches hints at a very different kind of performance philosophy taking shape in Italy.

As organisms develop from embryos, groups of cells migrate and reshape themselves to form all manner of complex tissues.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Gone are the days when buildings were just four walls. In Malaysia’s bustling property market, developers fight tooth and nail on design, cost and branding. This underscores that a building’s shape is ...

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” once thought purely theoretical, may revolutionize electronics, ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...

Crows are arguably among the smartest creatures on the planet, possessing some cognitive abilities that rival those of 5- to 7-year-old human children. Now, a new study adds basic geometry to the list ...