Hexagons are startlingly omnipresent in nature and their properties are somewhat awe-inspiring. Still, we can explain much of the hexagon’s natural recurrence without resorting to religion. GIPHY ...

The film explores the intricate relationship between mathematics and the construction of honeycomb by bees. It highlights how bees utilize geometric shapes, particularly hexagons, to create an ...

Columns of basalts from an old volcanic eruption. A snowflake. Beehives. Corals, crystals, and a lot of other structures, both biological and non-biological, feature hexagons. Why does nature, which ...

Basalt columns and insect eyes also form hexagonal patterns. But what makes hexagons so special? Well, as it turns out, it really is all about math. A hexagon is the shape that best fills a plane with ...

Why Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!) Season 5 Episode 27 | 5m 58s Video has Closed Captions | CC. From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns.

(via It's Okay to Be Smart) From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. Many of these patterns even resemble geometric shapes. One of the most common? Hexagons. Why do ...

Calling all bee lovers with money to spend — Canada has a new buzzing honeycomb-shaped coin. The Royal Canadian Mint released ...

Discover the science behind nature's favorite shape, the hexagon. Plus, a cutting-edge drone uses insect antennae to sniff out scents.

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby have created similar geometric shapes (holes in the form of stars, squares, pentagons and hexagons) in whirlpools of water in a ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

The Encyclopædia Britannica of 1797 notes that, of the three regular tessellating shapes – equilateral triangle, square and hexagon – the ‘hexagon is the most proper, both for convenience and strength ...