Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fano varieties are known as the basic “atomic structure” of geometry, but are notoriously difficult to discover and organize.

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show how forces and cooperation between cells create structure—and how ...

No matter whether they're big, little, long, short, skinny or fat -- classic stalactites have the same singular shape. Almost everyone knows that stalactites, formations that hang from the roof of ...

Last spring, mathematician Henry Segerman found a peculiar post on Facebook. It was by a programmer who had could not conjure mental images---a condition called aphantasia. Segerman immediately ...

Sometimes visualising a geometrical proof can make understanding it so much easier. Now mathematicians Elizabeth Slavkovsky and Oliver Knill, both of Harvard University, have taken a step in that ...

In nature, many things have evolved that differ in size, color and, above all, in shape. While the color or size of an object can be easily described, the description of a shape is more complicated.

Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges ...