In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

In both string theory and artificial intelligence, the hidden structure of space determines what is possible on the surface.

Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set ...

In a testament to the crows’ intelligence (or perhaps just the deliciousness of mealworms), the birds all caught on ...

Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible ...

Squares, triangles, circles - these geometric shapes appear everywhere in art and architecture going back all through human history. Geometric regularity seems to be something that the human brain ...

Squares, triangles, circles - these geometric shapes appear everywhere in art and architecture going back all through human history. Geometric regularity seems to be something that the human brain is ...