In an early chapter of his interesting new book, Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy describes a visit to the Alhambra, the great Moorish palace in Granada, Spain. He and ...

Upgrading to symmetrical speed in our increasingly connected world could make all the difference in your home internet ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

In psychological studies of visual perception, symmetry is accepted as a potent cue in visual search for cryptic objects, yet its importance for non-human animals has been assumed rather than tested.

Fossils of the bilaterian Ikaria wariootia found in South Australia represent one of the oldest examples of an organism with anterior and posterior differentiation, according to a study. During the ...