Symmetry runs rampant in nature. It’s present wherever mirror images are repeated, like in the right and left halves of elephants or butterflies, or in the repeating patterns of flower petals ...

Learn how to spot symmetry in the world around you with this lesson for children aged 7 to 9 from BBC Bitesize - The Regenerators.

Had Keats lived long enough to read Ian Stewart's latest book, Why Beauty is Truth, he might have been inspired to write a sixth great ode, soft-piping sweet melodies in praise of symmetry. But ...

Symmetry runs rampant in nature. It’s present wherever mirror images are repeated, like in the right and left halves of elephants or butterflies, or in the repeating patterns of flower petals ...

Hence, there exists an abundance of symmetry in tile patterns worldwide—and in nature, whether radial (starfish, pine cones, the cross-section of a kiwi fruit) or bilateral (a butterfly, a maple ...

This led to my discovery of the ‘why’ behind so many of these reoccurring geometric phenomena. Once I found this symmetry in nature, I was determined to find the Fibonacci spiral in the many things I ...

Sasha Jumanca (Germany/Romania) emphasises the symmetry of the wings of two silver-studded blue butterflies. It surprised Sasha how many butterflies were “dancing in the air from one flower to the ...

The weird reason symmetry abounds in nature may have to do with our genes striving for efficiency "The beautiful symmetry that we see everywhere is primed to appear," one scientist told Salon ...