In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

On a beach in Northern Poland, buried treasure has been found. A beautiful intricately inlaid dagger from the Bronze Age, perhaps once used in a ceremony by a “solar cult”, was dug up by a ...

Striped Beauty - The Zebra. Image by Fiktube, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The zebra is perhaps one of the most ...

Take, for example, trying to tile a flat surface with pentagons. The team discovered distinct geometric patterns emerging from these two types of frustration. In both cases, there needed to be ...

Animals come in all shapes and sizes, but also pretty much all patterns. Those patterns might function as camouflage, aid in finding mates or help them regulate heat,but now scientists might have ...

They discovered a piece of history lodged in a lump of clay: a small ornamental dagger decorated with stars, crescent moons and geometric patterns. The metal detectorists, Jacek Ukowski and ...

The leg is the perfect canvas for tattoos for lots of reasons. It’s easy to cover them up, there’s plenty of space to get a range of different sizes, and as far as placement goes, you can be as ...

The material is designed in special geometric patterns that behave differently under impact conditions compared to conventional foam liners. "When exposed to energy from an impact, the liner ...