A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Italy, working with a colleague from the U.S., has found that sea urchin spine joiners have bone formations that conform to a Voronoi ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at giraffe’s fur and you’ll see a ...

If you've got a stack of old geometry textbooks lying around, Alan Rorie's bookshelf is the perfect home for them. The artist and neurobiologist's Kickstarter offers the opportunity to design your own ...

Close up of Voronoi pattern leaf veins. Researchers in associate professor Andrew Magenau’s Macromolecular Materials group and Distinguished Professor Michel Barsoum’s Layered Solids Group report the ...

When a mouse sweeps a single whisker across a textured surface, a tight cluster of neurons in its brain lights up within milliseconds. That cluster sits inside a grid of cortical columns, each one ...