The noses of many mammals, such as dogs, ferrets and cows, feature grooves forming a multitude of polygons. A team has analyzed in detail how these patterns form in the embryo using 3D imaging ...

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Physicists have directly mapped a hidden kind of geometry inside quantum materials that steers electrons in ways strikingly ...

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A multinational team of scientists have uncovered a previously undescribed shape -- they call the 'scutoid' -- adopted by epithelial cells during embryonic development that enables the cells to ...

The “moving sofa problem,” a puzzle that has remained unresolved since it was introduced in 1966 and memorably illustrated in ...

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