Quantitative approaches are used increasingly in evolutionary developmental biology ('evo-devo'). In particular, geometric morphometrics is widely used to quantify the shape of organisms or their ...

‘When we turn on an electric field over the mixture, electrical charge accumulates at the interface between the oils. This charge density shears the interface out of thermodynamic equilibrium and into ...

Ryan Hayward's self-folding crane begins as a flat, trilayer sheet. The middle pNIPAM hydrogel layer swells as the water around it is heated, and the folding is guided by slits patterned into the more ...

Help sort shapes in a shape factory. Look at examples of shapes to see if they belong in a polygon group, or set. Examine examples of shapes that do not belong in the set. What features do you think ...

The works of the Greek polymath Plato have kept people busy for millennia. Mathematicians have long pondered Platonic solids, a collection of geometric forms that are highly regular and are frequently ...