Denys Fisher was inspired by the cogs and levers he worked with as an engineer Sixty years ago engineer Denys Fisher settled down to relax on a Sunday night and listen to a spot of classical music.

Sixty years ago engineer Denys Fisher settled down to relax on a Sunday night and listen to a spot of classical music. Within minutes, he was hit by a Eureka moment that solved a problem he had been ...

Months ago, I observed a student drawing spiraling circles over and over on a sheet of notebook paper while participating in our class discussion. For some reason, I was reminded of an old toy my ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

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Have you been left in awe by the stunning intricate designs created by a pen and gears by seemingly following the same pattern of movement over and over again? Did you wonder "How the heck is that ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

Did you know there are several types of lip shapes? For too long, I didn’t either. But as it turns out, knowing how to find yours can be a super-useful beauty tool. As a result, she’s seen fewer trend ...

With inspiration from the famous Spirograph Girl, primary school pupils aged 7 to 11, kids can create autumn themed Spirograph designs to win a Spirograph bundle for themselves and their school, plus ...

‘And so, out of the turmoil of the early twenties, a new art was born. In those seemingly “non-representational” pictures, the bits of reality literally stuck, nailed, glued into them, represented the ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...