A lot of things are symmetrical – cats, dogs (bilateral symmetry), planets, stars (spherical symmetry), galaxies, pies (radial symmetry) and a lot more, except for the Universe. If you look really ...

It's easy to make simple symmetrical things, but something that's very complicated and yet still symmetrical — that kind of seems like magic. By Nicole Karlis.

Yet some Modernist pioneers did eventually recognize the evocative power of symmetry. After 1950, for example, Mies’s designs are increasingly symmetrical, both in plan and elevation.

Because it’s easier to encode instructions for building simple, symmetrical structures, nature winds up with a disproportionate number of these simpler instruction sets to choose from when it ...

"The reason the Red Square remains so symmetrical is that there is no material that has interfered with the outflow, so it has preserved the symmetry it was born with," Lloyd said.

That's because the human eye naturally favors things that are symmetrical and even. It's known as having a "Golden Ratio" face. Often, what we're looking at is less about looks and more about ...

For example, people perceive a symmetrical face as 'beautiful,' but if there is something that slightly disrupts the symmetry, it adds to the 'beauty' as an attractive feature.