The company, which had no revenue last year and 7.5 billion won ($5.1 million) in sales for the first nine months of this year with widening losses, boasts a $2.9 billion market cap. South Korea’s ...

We frequently need to find the nearest hospital, surgery or supermarket. A map divided into cells, each cell covering the region closest to a particular centre, can assist us in our quest. Such a map ...

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth hormone that emanates in waves from developing leaves' pores ...

When a mouse sweeps a single whisker across a textured surface, a tight cluster of neurons in its brain lights up within milliseconds. That cluster sits inside a grid of cortical columns, each one ...

The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious scientific attention. What looks like ordinary greenery may actually be hiding an ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at giraffe’s fur and you’ll see a ...