The shapes I continue to return to in my research career are both commonplace and complex. They are commonplace because we learn about two-dimensional versions of these shapes as children ...

Kids use a simple underwater scene and foam stickers to create a fun dimensional project while learning the three ...

When the trio eventually identified a space-filling 3D shape with just two corners, Domokos thought they’d found their answer. “I got completely obsessed with this whole thing,” he says.

Proteins start out as long chains of amino acids and fold into a host of curlicues and other 3-D shapes. Some resemble the tight corkscrew ringlets of a 1980s perm or the pleats of an accordion.