Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted by ...

A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, down a sand dune and across a plain of dried mud, bound to the laws of geology and sediments. The stripes of the ...

Quantum computers promise to solve problems that overwhelm classical machines, but their most stubborn obstacle is noise that ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...

Look in the mirror. Is one eye slightly higher than the other? Is your smile a bit lopsided? These tiny asymmetries might seem like nothing more than quirky physical traits, but they could be ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1598, Pattern perception and computational complexity (19 July 2012), pp. 2007-2022 (16 pages) Formal language theory has been extended ...

A tool ' EscherSketch ' that can draw surprisingly complex and beautiful patterns with simple movements just by moving the cursor randomly is released. Not only the pen tool but also shapes such as ...

'Are you symmetrical?" asks the interior designer Gwen Kenny as I glance anxiously at the mirror. But she isn't talking about my eyebrows. Kenny is talking about symmetry in the home. "One of the ...