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 ...

wave hello or grasp an ice cream cone — or multiple ice cream cones. These are the curvy-cornered, anthropomorphized, abstract shapes, hands and personalities that make up murals by Shawn Smith ...

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 ...