For the study the researchers recruited 35 dogs who were trained to fetch a target object from a set of distractors. During testing, the dogs were presented with two choices: one matching the target ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

Graduate students at the University of Tokyo have outdone themselves and are changing the way we look at drones with their newest invention. They created a group of futuristic-looking drone prototypes ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

In a new study exploring how dogs recognize and generalize objects, researchers from Eötvös Lorand University (Budapest) ...

Researchers from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects ...

From a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid to a pair of galaxies unable to quell their attraction, here are five of the most beautiful heart-shaped objects seen in space. When you purchase through links ...

Years ago I would have melted lead and poured it into the object to be weighted, maybe used a form to cast it first if there was danger of the object melting and letting liquid lead run everywhere.

InDesign is a desktop publishing and layout software for creating fliers, magazines, books, and digital publications. Shapes in InDesign can be used as they are for artwork, they can be combined and ...