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 ...

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 ...

In the very first microseconds of the Big Bang, something strange happened. Matter somehow outnumbered antimatter and kept the fledgling universe from annihilating itself. This break with conventional ...

When a ‘scanner’ called Minnie van der Merwe handed Rosemary Brown a photographic slide with an unusual configuration of particle tracks, the physicist knew that she was on to something. “I looked ...

The idea of symmetry as a harmonizing force has been ingrained in the minds of architects and designers for millennia. Balance around a central point is agreeable to the eye and creates a calming ...