Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

Neurons come in an astounding assortment of shapes and sizes, forming a thick inter-connected jungle of cells. Now, UCL neuroscientists have found that there is a simple pattern that describes the ...

Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY ...

The same researchers behind the 13-sided "hat" shape have stumbled upon a version that improves upon the original in a very important way. Reading time 2 minutes In March, a group of mathematicians ...

For ages 5 and older. Archimedes was a mathematician who lived in ancient Greece more than 2,000 years ago. He was fascinated by shapes. One thing he liked to do was play a game called Stomachion. To ...