Scientists are one step closer to designing porous materials that can change and retain their shapes -- a function known as shape-memory effect. Kyoto University scientists are one step closer to ...

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How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...