The FINANCIAL — From snowflakes to sunflowers, starfish to sharks, symmetry is everywhere in nature. Not just in ... symmetrical patterns seem to occur more often than you would expect if ...

Hence, there exists an abundance of symmetry in tile patterns worldwide—and in nature, whether radial (starfish, pine cones, the cross-section of a kiwi fruit) or bilateral (a butterfly ...

For example ... often spot this symmetry in nature when scanning trees as well. All too often, I witness red squirrels and gray squirrels perched on a branch with their tails curled upward behind them ...

From mesmerizing symmetry of spiraling sunflower seeds to mirror-like sides of the human body, patterns dominate nature. Aesthetic appeal aside, what advantage does repetition afford?

The tantalizing colours of precious opals and the colour of some species of birds are examples of polycrystalline ... show that the rational design of patch shape and symmetry can drive patchy ...

A new way of understanding the structure of proteins, polymers, minerals, and engineered materials will be published in the May 2011 issue of the journal Nature Materials. The discovery by two Penn ...

From snowflakes to quartz, nature's crystalline ... "Most crystals grow in a regular pattern, if you think about snowflakes, there is a translational symmetry that guides the unit cell repeating ...