Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted by ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

Scientists have discovered a new factor – a noggin-like gene – that plays a key role in controlling the pathway responsible for dorsoventral symmetry in animal phylogeny. A team from the Department of ...

Look in the mirror. Is one eye slightly higher than the other? Is your smile a bit lopsided? These tiny asymmetries might seem like nothing more than quirky physical traits, but they could be ...

A tool ' EscherSketch ' that can draw surprisingly complex and beautiful patterns with simple movements just by moving the cursor randomly is released. Not only the pen tool but also shapes such as ...

'Are you symmetrical?" asks the interior designer Gwen Kenny as I glance anxiously at the mirror. But she isn't talking about my eyebrows. Kenny is talking about symmetry in the home. "One of the ...