Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and ...

Though now extinct, ammonoids (a group of marine mollusks with shells) evolved for 350 million years, always with a tendency toward increasingly elaborate shell structures. Scientists have studied ...

In the annals of design, seashells have a great pedigree. They inspired ancient architects to add those graceful spiral flourishes to the tops of their Grecian columns. The nautilus shell influence… ...

It's possible that a clam shell scratched by Homo erectus — an early hominid — might be our oldest-ever example of artistic work. Or just a thoughtless doodle. The shell, which was found in ...

Pan and colleagues’ design — a tall, narrow urinal with a curving inner surface — employs the same geometry as a nautilus shell (SN: 4/1/05).). “There’s a smooth flow across the surface ...

Courtesy of Tonkin Liu. Similar to the ways seashells gain their strength from optimized curvilinear geometry, Shell Lace Structure takes advantage of these forms to provide added stiffness as a ...

Another has the zigzag pattern, most likely produced by scratching the shell's surface with a shark's tooth, that the scientists say represents the earliest geometric engraving known to exist.

The University of Michigan’s DART Laboratory has unveiled a new product called Shell Wall—which the organization describes as the first lightweight, freeform 3D printed and structurally reinforced ...