Calling all bee lovers with money to spend — Canada has a new buzzing honeycomb-shaped coin. The Royal Canadian Mint released the Nature’s Delight: Honey Bee – 1 oz. Fine Silver Coin with an intricate ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

The film explores the intricate relationship between mathematics and the construction of honeycomb by bees. It highlights how bees utilize geometric shapes, particularly hexagons, to create an ...

Discover the science behind nature's favorite shape, the hexagon. Plus, a cutting-edge drone uses insect antennae to sniff out scents.

Photographs of 3D-printed shapes show soft cells derived from space filling polyhedra. Blue is derived from a truncated octahedron, pink is from a hexagonal prism and green is from a cube.

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Complex systems in nature, like their synthetic counterparts in technology, ... Frey and Gartner were able to show that hexagonal shapes offer considerable advantages for self-assembly.

Pencils; we've all held them. At some point in your life, you may have wondered why they come in the shapes and sizes that they do, and in particular why they are hexagonal. There are a few ...

Hexagons are mutually associated with bees and wasps, as both insect species build their nests using this humble six-sided shape. Anyone who stumbles upon a bee or wasp nest in nature will be ...

In the latest, China has produced an artificial diamond and is calling 'super diamond'. This diamond is rare and is hexagonal in shape. - Strongest ever? China creates ultra-hard 'super diamond ...