Hollow-cone morphologies have been formed on carbonate crystals of calcite, aragonite and vaterite through molecular control with an organic acid polymer. The macroscopic conical shapes featured ...

The baby fowl can decipher abstract relationships between shapes and colors based on a new ... a pair of spheres or a cone linked to a cylinder. The team watched as the ducklings decided between ...

Intriguingly, though, lotus plants that grow on stems elevated above the water produce cone shapes with larger, longer undulations. Now a team of engineers in China has found that the difference isn’t ...