Kathleen Garland receives funding from the Australian Government, Monash University and Museums Victoria. Alistair Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University ...

Mattel has conducted a study called “The Shape of Play,” proving that play is really for everyone. For 80 years, Mattel has been at the forefront of play. This first-of-its-kind global research study ...

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For centuries, humans believed they held a monopoly on geometric intuition. The ability to recognize structure in a shape – its right angles, symmetry, and parallel lines – was seen as a mark of human ...

"The data from our study will be used to assess the physical properties and shapes of potentially impacting asteroids, providing a great test case on the kind of rapid response observations that ...

Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set of geometric shapes, and have an affinity for geometric regularity – shapes ...

Have you ever wondered if your face shape reveals more about you than just your looks? Your personality traits, mindset, and even career potential may be hidden in the structure of your face!

It explains the pattern we see among dolphins, sharks, and tunas—distantly related lineages unified in their streamlined body shape used for fast swimming. We set out to test whether the same ...

In this work we present a comprehensive exploration of generalization to unseen shapes in single-view 3D reconstruction. We introduce SDFNet, an architecture combining 2.5D sketch estimation with a ...

Researchers at UMass Amherst discovered a unique fluid that defies typical liquid behavior by remembering its shape after being disturbed. The mixture of oil, water, and magnetized nickel ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to smack into the moon in the year 2032, according to new research. A team of astronomers recently studied the ...