Getting shapes into numbers A mathematical framework enables accurate characterization of shapes January 19, 2021 Mathematics Plant Research (B&M) ...

Old phone numbers in the U.S. had letters to denote the telephone exchange that handled any given number, a practice that lasted until the late 1970s.

Crowdsourcing — asking a large number of players to contribute to a project — will allow researchers to obtain a typology of letter shapes with reproducible and transparent classification rules. The ...

A decade ago Richard E. Cytowic, a neurologist, chronicled a number of case studies in a popular book, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, and scientists realized the time was ripe to reopen the case of ...

Numbers, letters and symbols are some of the 100 or so self-assembled DNA shapes designed by Harvard scientists. Credit: B. Wei, M. Dai, P. Yin/Wyss Inst. for Biologically Inspired Engineering ...