Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...

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More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

WASHINGTON – Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long ...