Researchers have found an answer to a centuries-old floral mystery, using a mathematical model to explain how striped tulips ...

Scientists tested crows on their ability to recognize “geometric regularity,” a skill previously assumed to be unique to humans ...

A trio of animal physiologists at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, has found that at least one species of crow has the ability to recognize geometric regularity. In their study published in the ...

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is ...

Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of ...