Category: General Science

• I Am Not Left-Handed!

  Symmetry in nature tells us a lot about the forces that shape an object: stars and planets are mostly spherical because of gravity, for example, but slightly flattened at the poles because of rotation. Crystal lattices in solids form repeating patterns due to the forces between atoms or molecules comprising them. Even biological symmetries—two arms,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 28, 2011

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, General Science