Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Epithelial cells, which cover the surfaces of many organs, adopt a previously undescribed geometric shape - the scutoid - so that the tissue can curve, scientists have found. The epithelial cells ...

A completely new geometric shape has been discovered by a group of researchers looking into the dynamics of cells that contribute toward the embryonic development and lead to the formation of human ...

There's been an exciting, new development in the action-packed world of geometric shapes. Researchers from the the University of Seville and Seville Institute of Biomedicine have discovered a new ...

When heated to about 360 degrees Fahrenheit (182 degrees Celsius), surface tension between the solder and plates caused the hinges to fold upward and rotate to become geometrically complex 3D shapes — ...