Peg uses a magic ukulele to find the line of symmetry on shapes. Peg uses a magic ukulele to find the line of symmetry on shapes that form steps. The steps should lead her to the Kingdom of Day, where ...

YOU might remember learning about symmetry at school. Maybe a teacher showed you a snowflake’s six-fold symmetry and you marvelled at how it looked the same no matter how you rotated it. Well, it ...

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Techniques from computer science may help explain the tendency in biology for structures to repeat themselves. By Kate Golembiewski Symmetry runs rampant in nature. It’s present wherever mirror images ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. If you work up from first principles, much of what we ...

Reflective symmetry is when a shape can be folded in half, with either side of the fold being a mirror image of the other. Rotational symmetry is when a shape can be rotated and it still looks the ...