Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted by ...

In psychological studies of visual perception, symmetry is accepted as a potent cue in visual search for cryptic objects, yet its importance for non-human animals has been assumed rather than tested.

A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, down a sand dune and across a plain of dried mud, bound to the laws of geology and sediments. The stripes of the ...

A new study helps bring the incredible color and pattern variation in butterflies into focus. The results align with a growing body of evidence that suggests butterfly-wing diversity really boils down ...

'Are you symmetrical?" asks the interior designer Gwen Kenny as I glance anxiously at the mirror. But she isn't talking about my eyebrows. Kenny is talking about symmetry in the home. "One of the ...

Look in the mirror. Is one eye slightly higher than the other? Is your smile a bit lopsided? These tiny asymmetries might seem like nothing more than quirky physical traits, but they could be ...

This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp ...