Honeycombs are the building blocks for a hive. Each honeycomb consists ... The surface tension pulls these round cells of warm wax into a hexagon shape. When this happens, the molecules in the ...

For the last three decades, biologists and computer scientists have dedicated significant effort to quantifying the 3D shape ...

The worker bees need eggs or less than 4-day-old larvae available to make a queen cell to produce a new queen. After the last ...

Although the usual image of a cell is an amorphous blob, these mouse cells settled into well-defined polygonal shapes thanks to a patterning system stamped onto the surface the cells are sitting on.

New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain their original shape during mitosis and do not turn round. Isomorphic cells usually divide into asymmetrical daughter ...

The shape and morphology of a cell play a key role in the biological function. This corresponds to the principle of "form follows function", which is common in modern fields of design and architecture ...