It’s the time of year when our family loves to gather and see how prolate spheroids travel through the air, end-over-end. Yes, our children are still talking about last December’s “Double Doink,” but ...

As organisms develop from embryos, groups of cells migrate and reshape themselves to form all manner of complex tissues. There are no anatomical molds shaped like lungs, livers or other tissues for ...

An isotope of gold has given scientists their first glimpse of longitudinal nuclear wobbling. The documented wobbling is similar to the way the Earth wobbles, caused by things like unequal axes. The ...

It's a scientific marvel that chicken eggs don't normally splat, but a spectacle when they do. Along the long side of its prolate spheroid shape, a chicken egg is almost impossible to break by simply ...