The honeycomb-like patterns that often occur in salt deserts, including Death Valley and Chile, look like something from another world. A team that included researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...

Finally, honeycombs are often built as multiple units, starting from different areas of the hive and ultimately meeting in the middle somewhere.

Article Published: 02 November 2008 Accordion-like honeycombs for tissue engineering of cardiac anisotropy George C. Engelmayr Jr, Mingyu Cheng, Christopher J. Bettinger, Jeffrey T. Borenstein ...

Honeycombs like the one pictured above plaster the surface of rocks around the world, but how they form has long been a mystery. Now it seems they may be created by the action of water and salt.

Plastic honeycombs are widely used by professional honey bee queen breeders, but this is the first time the technique has entered a laboratory environment.

Honeycombs on their own are not fractals because their characteristic shape only occurs on one length scale. However, a hierarchical fractal structure can be built upon a hexagonal honeycomb by ...

The perfect hexagonal array of bees’ honeycombs, admired for millennia as an example of natural pattern formation, owes more to simple physical forces than to the skill of bees, according to a ...

Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing Date: March 30, 2012 Source: Imperial College London Summary: Scientists take an important step in developing a material using ...