Physicists discover how geometric frustration shapes the emblematic flower of the rose
Four physicists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, have untied the mechanical process behind the growth of roses while ...
Tag: shapes
The structure of the language shapes colors addition links even for people born blind, reveals the study
Humans are known to do mental associations between various stimuli and real world concepts, including colors. For example, red and ...
The way in which experience shapes the activity of hippocampal place cells to create flexible cognitive cards
The brain of mammals is known to produce mental representations of the space environment, called cognitive cards, which help humans ...
Unexpected beauty and major antimicrobial power increase as phages transform into surprising flower shapes
A group of McMaster researchers who regularly work with bacteriophages – viruses that eat bacteria – got a pleasant and ...
Results suggest fungal mycelia can “recognize” shapes
Can brainless organisms still show signs of intelligence? Researchers from Tohoku University and Nagaoka College had this question in mind ...
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
Researchers at Cornell University have created microscopic robots less than a millimeter in size, printed as a 2D hexagonal "metasheet," ...
3D shapes of viral proteins reveal previously unknown roles
Viruses are hard to track. They evolve rapidly and regularly develop new proteins that help them infect their hosts. These ...
Research team develops metamaterial to enable control of shapes and properties in real time
Inspired by the remarkable adaptability observed in biological organisms like the octopus, a breakthrough has been made in the field ...
Rare 3D fossils show some early trees had shapes unlike any you’ve ever seen
In the fossil record, trees are usually preserved with only their trunks. They generally do not include sheets to show ...
