In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her joy. While some people would rather avoid snowflakes and the slippery roads ...

Bright patches of light, known as sun dogs, appear when sunlight bends through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude clouds. These dazzling displays ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, ...

Need to separate bolts that arrive in a mixed batch onsite? Hexagon's Aeon robot can do that. Aeon's human friend is 'seeing' items in front of it with head-mounted cameras through NVIDIA Omniverse.

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Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The hexagonal close-packed layers (HCPLs) in the hexagonal close-packed (HCP) lattice ...

Researchers of ancient Egypt discovered “five identical structures near the Khafre Pyramid’s base, linked by pathways, and eight deep vertical wells descending 648 meters underground.” Claims that ...

Police seized nearly 150 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in concrete landscape pavers ahead of Valentine's Day in North Carolina, according to officials. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug ...

In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According ...