How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...
Around the building are thick, profiled Baroque rails. The roof is covered with glazed blue tiles. The windows were originally leaded, but were enlarged in 1740 and replaced with three rails with a ...
A new theory that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon. The nature of this ...
Buckminster Fuller's 1959 dome concept over Manhattan was developed on a belief in humanity's ability to shape its environment ... with its predominately baroque, “second empire,” and art ...
Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in England have discovered a rare 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle in the shape of a gladiator, proving that these iconic fighters' acclaim reached as far as ...