Consider the wheel. Round. Dependable. Boring. Hasn’t been redesigned in centuries. Positively Neolithic. Now consider the spiral. Eccentric. Open-ended. Captivating. Native Americans carved spirals ...

Like Archimedes notably stated, “Give me a lever long enough, and I will move the Earth,” an innovation, inspired by the principle, is ready to transform the renewable energy world. In this context, ...

Tiny swirls of gold, so small they're invisible to the human eye, could be a new weapon in the war against identity theft, researchers say. Such "nano-spirals," if they were printed onto objects like ...

Archimedes devoted much of his life to the study of geometry. He was fascinated with shapes. Many of the shapes he studied can be found in nature. Archimedes mathematically described the constant ...

(Nanowerk News) Take gold spirals about the size of a dime…and shrink them down about six million times. The result is the world’s smallest continuous spirals: “nano-spirals” with unique optical ...

A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier. The mathematical features of the paintings suggest that ...

Researchers have made the world's smallest spirals and found they have unique optical properties that are nearly impossible to counterfeit if they were added to identity cards, currency and other ...

A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier. The mathematical features of the paintings suggest that ...