Women have more orgasms during sex with men who are more symmetrical. Does this penchant for order cloud our ability to see the universe accurately? A new book by theoretical astrophysicist Mario ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...

In an early chapter of his interesting new book, Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy describes a visit to the Alhambra, the great Moorish palace in Granada, Spain. He and ...

Symmetry attracts us. Studies comparing people’s reactions to different faces have shown, for example, that they find highly symmetrical faces more attractive than less symmetrical faces. The symmetry ...

We often think of the natural world as a chaotic, tangled mess of organic shapes and unpredictable growth, but every so often, nature reveals a hidden obsession with math. When you stumble upon ...

This week's question comes from Meiko Sakamoto in Tokyo who asks: "Why do all creatures — dogs, humans, fish, even insects — look symmetric? Even our imaginary aliens are often depicted with a ...

To most people, “symmetry” means the bilateral symmetry exhibited by, say, a butterfly, or the human face. That is, if you take a picture of a butterfly and draw a straight line down the middle of the ...

Distinct phases do not always differ from each other in their symmetries as expected in the Ginzburg-Landau paradigm. Two gapped phases having the same symmetry may be distinguished by a set of global ...