Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

Crows are considered to be among the smartest creatures on Earth. They have cognitive abilities at the levels of five- […] ...

W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible ...

In a remarkable new study, crows demonstrated an intuitive grasp of geometry—identifying irregular shapes without training.

Scientists tested crows on their ability to recognize “geometric regularity,” a skill previously assumed to be unique to ...

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, ...

To minimize the space it moves through, you’ll need an infinitely narrow needle—and creative math. This puzzle led to the Kakeya conjecture: It states that the number of dimensions of the traced shape ...