Monday, July 30, 2018

Scientists have discovered an entirely new shape and it is all over you!

It turns out that your skin cells employ a shape previously unknown to both biologists and mathematicians...


Science Alert: Scientists Have Discovered an Entirely New Shape, And It Was Hiding in Your Cells


Gizmodo: The 'Scutoid' Is Geometry's Newest Shape, and It Could Be All Over Your Body


The original research article: 

Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia

The 'scutoid' shape (d) was named in homage to the scutellum 
 – a posterior portion of the thorax in some insects, which resembles the same mini-triangle shape (e)...  
Some fun and educational videos about scutoids...


The STEMulus Network: NEW SHAPE DISCOVERED...


 Brand new 'scutoid' shape discovered by scientists in skin cells...

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