Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been ...

Over the last two years, mathematicians have identified the best versions of a child’s playroom’s worth of shapes. These results occupy a quirky corner of math and, fittingly, have been produced by ...

A century ago, a British art critic by the name of Clive Bell attempted to explain what makes art, well, art. He postulated that there is a "significant form" — a distinct set of lines, colors, ...

Shapes are everywhere. If you look around, you may be able to see circles, squares and even triangles in the furniture or the flooring. If you step outside, into a garden, park or even the grounds at ...

There’s no such thing as an “ideal” body shape, regardless of what some may try to tell you. Bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. That’s part of what makes each of us unique. It’s important ...

Physicists are using 3-D printing to test complex qualities of shapes made via the computer. They are studying "jamming" and the structural properties of shapes. Prof. Heinrich Jaeger's research group ...