A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Italy, working with a colleague from the U.S., has found that sea urchin spine joiners have bone formations that conform to a Voronoi ...

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth hormone that emanates in waves from developing leaves' pores ...

If you've got a stack of old geometry textbooks lying around, Alan Rorie's bookshelf is the perfect home for them. The artist and neurobiologist's Kickstarter offers the opportunity to design your own ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at giraffe’s fur and you’ll see a ...

Close up of Voronoi pattern leaf veins. Researchers in associate professor Andrew Magenau’s Macromolecular Materials group and Distinguished Professor Michel Barsoum’s Layered Solids Group report the ...

Nature and architecture come together in this plan for a multi-use development in Dubai. AmorphouStudio designed the Symbiotic Towers using environmental data to ensure occupants would be comfortable ...

When a mouse sweeps a single whisker across a textured surface, a tight cluster of neurons in its brain lights up within milliseconds. That cluster sits inside a grid of cortical columns, each one ...