Physicists discover how geometric frustration shapes the emblematic flower of the rose
MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHAGE in shape in rose petals. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126 / Science.Adt0672. Four physicists from the Hebrew ...
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The structure of the language shapes colors addition links even for people born blind, reveals the study
Credit: UNSPLASH / CC0 public domain Humans are known to do mental associations between various stimuli and real world concepts, ...
The way in which experience shapes the activity of hippocampal place cells to create flexible cognitive cards
Balanced spatial coding of objectives and space in a familiar environment. Credit: Qian, Li & Magee. (Nature Neuroscience, 2025). The ...
Unexpected beauty and major antimicrobial power increase as phages transform into surprising flower shapes
Colorized groups of phages compared to flowers. Credit: McMaster University A group of McMaster researchers who regularly work with bacteriophages ...
Results suggest fungal mycelia can “recognize” shapes
Fungal mycelial networks connecting wooden blocks arranged in the shape of a circle (left) and a cross (right). Credit: Yu ...
Unique new fish fossil prompts rethinking of how Earth’s geology shapes evolution
Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can grow up to two ...
Versatile microscale robots can bend into 3D shapes and crawl
Kirigami structure of the metabots. Credit: Natural materials (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02007-7 Researchers at Cornell University have created microscopic robots less ...
3D shapes of viral proteins reveal previously unknown roles
Nomburg and his colleagues used computational and deep learning tools to predict the 3D shapes of proteins in nearly 4,500 ...
Research team develops metamaterial to enable control of shapes and properties in real time
Figure 1. Concept and mechanism of PPMM for in situ programming of mechanical behaviors. The design concept of using digital ...
Rare 3D fossils show some early trees had shapes unlike any you’ve ever seen
Sanfordiacaulis model with simplified branching structure for easier viewing. Note that humans are provided to scale but did not exist ...
