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 ...

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 ...