Atoms naturally have the highest degree of geometrical symmetry, corresponding to the spherical symmetry. An interesting property often arising from symmetry is a high degree of degeneracy--a ...

A lot of things are symmetrical – cats, dogs (bilateral symmetry), planets, stars (spherical symmetry), galaxies, pies (radial symmetry) and a lot more, except for the Universe. If you look ...

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Although cylindrical lenses share some common traits with conventional spherical lenses, the spherical symmetry in the latter makes them easier to describe, manufacture and test. The fabrication and ...

The result has been published in the journal Nature ("Spherical symmetry in the kilonova AT2017gfo/GW170817"). Illustration of a spherical explosion. (Image: A. Sneppen) Kilonovae are giant explosions ...

And "their tendency to become more spherical as they are made suggests a preference for symmetry and an appreciation of geometry." Hundreds of stone spheroids, typically made from limestone or ...

Scientists have theoretically demonstrated that special tetrahedron nanostructures composed of certain metals have a higher degree of symmetry than the geometrical symmetry of spherical atoms.