Even today mathematicians still use dissection and rearrangement to fully understand when certain shapes are equivalent, leading to some surprising recent results. You’ve probably seen geometric ...

This is undoubtedly a proud moment for crows and the humans who were testing them. Cognitive neurobiologist at the University ...

The story of scissors congruence demonstrates how classical problems in geometry can find new life in the strange world of abstract modern math. Today, people think of the area of a shape as a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric ...

Squares, triangles, circles - these geometric shapes appear everywhere in art and architecture going back all through human history. Geometric regularity seems to be something that the human brain ...

A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not ...