When you're waiting in a busy restaurant or doctor's office, it may matter whether the tables, light fixtures and other objects are round or square. In a laboratory study, researchers found the shape ...

What’s the difference between the logo of a metal band and the patterns of a Zen garden? It sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s a real question - one that Dartmouth College researchers recently ...

49ers Museum manager and curator Beth Atlas works to display the team's history for all Faithful to enjoy. In order to do so, she uses math to design exhibits and measure artifacts. 49ers Museum ...

This study is concerned with tensions between the two different perspectives on the concept of angle: angle as a static shape and angle as a dynamic turn. The goal of the study is to explore how ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...

A cross section of a chambered nautilus shell shows the newly defined shape, the "soft cell," repeating outward in a spiral. FlamingPumpkin via Getty Images When humans cover a space using tiles of ...