Hexagonal honeycomb patterns often appear in nature, where strength, rigidity and lightness are called for. The shells of armadillos, the beaks of birds and, of course, the wax cells built by bees are ...

The research suggests that when many convection rolls develop next to each other in the ground, they are squeezed together and produce hexagonal, honeycomb-like patterns, along the edges of which ...

The honeycomb patterns which are often found in salt deserts in Death Valley, US, and Bolivia, among other places, look like something from another world. Researchers can now explain the origin of ...

Water droplets then self-assemble into large arrays within the solution. Once the newly formed solution has evaporated it leaves behind a hexagonal honeycomb pattern over a large area of the polymer, ...

A single convection roll would form in a circular pattern as the roll then encloses as much volume as possible while minimizing its circumference. However, several convection rolls next to each other ...

The honeycomb patterns which are often found in salt deserts in Death Valley and Chile, among other places, look like something from another world. Researchers, including those from Graz ...