Software architecture has long faced the problem of operating within system boundaries where specific requirements dominate: ...

Fledgling universities funded by kings and other leaders hired professors for their chemistry departments. Organic chemistry became a recognized discipline. These developments established an entirely ...

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 ...

From tiger stripes to leopard spots, the animal world is full of distinctive and intricate patterns. In a new study, CU Boulder scientists refined their previous theory of how animal patterns form and ...

Diamonds. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / RosanaPrada / CC-BY-2.0 Scientists in Beijing have produced the first sizable sample of meteorite diamond, a rare form of carbon also known as lonsdaleite or ...

Structure: A monolithic business logic extended with a set of (adapter, component) pairs that encapsulate external dependencies. Hexagonal Architecture is a strange beast performance-wise. The generic ...

A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — Have you ever wondered why dogs, cows, and other mammals have those distinctive geometric patterns on their wet noses? Those polygonal shapes aren’t just random decorations – ...

You can change the background to anything you like if you're using Powerpoint to create presentations: a picture, a color, a gradient, or even an in-motion video. You'll know the best background for ...

There’s a reason fashion designers look to animal prints for inspiration. Creatures have evolved a dizzying array of patterns: stripes, spots, diamonds, chevrons, hexagons and even mazelike designs.