It’s hard to believe this dreamy creation was handcrafted.

Icosahedral symmetry is the most efficient way to build a strong container from many identical parts. By arranging elastic protein subunits in a perfectly symmetrical way, the virus creates a shell ...

Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida and Thomas K. Frazer, University of South ...