The number indicates what-fold rotational symmetry they have, so the symbol labeled C2 has two-fold symmetry, for example. All cyclic shapes have a mirror image that “spins the other way.” ...

At certain times, stoutness was a symbol of wealth and influence and ... and does so almost equally among men and women: facial symmetry. Across many clever experimental designs, researchers ...

YOU might remember learning about symmetry at school. Maybe a teacher showed you a snowflake’s six-fold symmetry and you marvelled at how it looked the same no matter how you rotated it.

With a variety of everyday objects, signs or symbols the children can identify the lines of symmetry on them. Using a sorting diagram, the children can either sort a range of objects based on ...

In an early chapter of his interesting new book, Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus du Sautoy describes a visit to the Alhambra, the great Moorish palace in Granada ...

By Kate Golembiewski Symmetry runs rampant in nature. It’s present wherever mirror images are repeated, like in the right and left halves of elephants or butterflies, or in the repeating ...

Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted ...

Symmetry is a beautiful thing — especially when it comes to potential partners. Studies have shown that people prefer symmetrical facial features in the opposite sex, which many scientists think ...

The finding, published in Current Biology, extends examples of symmetry in biology to the behavior of communities and the architectural structures that they build. In addition to the simple beauty ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Symmetry is when one side of a shape is a mirror image of the other side. Lots of buildings and everyday objects use ...