shapes

Nanoleaf has been setting itself apart in the best HomeKit light bulb battle, by letting you form certain shapes thanks to its innovative way of snapping its smart lights together.While Prime Day isn't due to officially start until July 11, that doesn't mean we're not seeing some deals, with Nanoleaf already showcasing $30 off its pack of 7 lights.These also come built-in with HomeKit, so you can easily control them through Apple's Home app, or, Nanoleaf's actually-decent app, where you can schedule the lights to change…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every square is a rectangle. But not every rectangle is a square. And according to Scott Murphy, a professor in the University of Kansas School of Music, the prevailing neo-Riemannian musical theories have been classifying many musical squares merely as rectangles. So Murphy has proposed a new…

Signage on Princeton's campus to communicate about ongoing construction projects. Credit: Bumper DeJesus Amidst rising concerns about the global climate crisis, Princeton researchers have uncovered the surprisingly large role that companies play in shaping sustainable behaviors among employees, as well as a link between eco-friendly behaviors and happier workers. …

'The specter': one of the extraordinary new repeating shapes discovered by a British pensioner. David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking for interesting shapes when he stumbled onto one unlike any other in November. When Smith shared his shape with the world in March,…

Agatha Christie meets Pedro Almodóvar in this flamboyant British murder mystery set in the unglamorous world of regional hairdressing competitions. The victim is a hairdresser who’s been scalped backstage at an event seven hours into coiffing his piece de resistance. He’s found dead by the model returning from a fag break. “One minute he’s shaping my ’fro, the next he’s dead,” she marvels.Medusa Deluxe is packed with funny, outrageous lines, and there are excellent performances especially from the female cast of…

A research article in Nature has shed light on the structure and function of respiratory supercomplexes in cellular respiration, particularly in a single-cell eukaryote, Tetrahymena thermophila. The study combined various techniques to demonstrate that all four respiratory complexes in this organism associate together to form a massive supercomplex consisting of 150 proteins and 311 lipids, which significantly influences the shape of the mitochondrial membrane. Credit: luminous-lab.comA new study has revealed how…

Avatars have become increasingly popular on social media platforms providing users with a fun and creative way to express themselves online. These virtual representations of users allow for greater personalisation and customisation, with options to choose body shape, hair, clothing, and accessories. In an effort to make it more popular across its apps, Meta that owns popular apps- Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp- has announced an update for its users. It brings new body shapes, improved hair, and clothing textures for…

Meta has announced some improvements to Avatars that will help freshen up your look. The company is adding a handful of new avatar body shapes and the company has also partnered with Puma to bring seven outfits to the Meta Avatars Store.  Meta is adding a bit more sparkle to Avatar eyes, brushing some volume into hair and making clothes look more realistic and textured. You’ll see these changes when you use your avatar outside of virtual reality (VR). Until now, though, the body shape options available when…

Our galaxy's largest nearby companion is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere.In recent years, new theoretical research and better observational capabilities have taught astronomers a great deal about our (not-so-little) neighbor.It's becoming increasingly clear that the LMC is helping shape the Milky Way's evolution."It was long assumed that our galaxy lives a quiet life of a hermit, with the nearest 'big' neighbor being Andromeda some 800 kiloparsecs…

The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because gravity pulls clouds of gas and dust toward the center of mass. The same holds for black holes—or, to be more precise, the event horizons of black holes—which must, according to theory, be spherically shaped in a universe with three dimensions of space and one of time.But do the same restrictions apply if our universe has higher dimensions, as is sometimes postulated—dimensions we cannot see but whose effects are…