Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs ...

Mathematicians show “soft cell” shapes are abundant in natural world. Soft cells are described as natural tiles with curved edges—a stark contrast to the mathematical solutions for creating tiling ...

Mathematicians have used pictures to solve equations ever since Pythagoras cooked up his famous theorem, but it wasn’t until the 20th century that the deep links between shapes and sums really came ...