Burs, bristled with hooks ingeniously shaped to grasp at fur and cloth, inspired Swiss engineer George de Mestral to invent the fastening material Velcro.
Burs, bristled with hooks ingeniously shaped to grasp at fur and cloth, inspired Swiss engineer George de Mestral to invent the fastening material Velcro.
Burs, bristled with hooks ingeniously shaped to grasp at fur and cloth, inspired Swiss engineer George de Mestral to invent the fastening material Velcro.
On Rosh Hashana, challah, a rich, eggy bread baked for the Sabbath, is formed into ladders, keys and birds. These shapes are meant to evoke Bible verses or represent things you want for the new year.
As well as the way our bodies are put together, our gender also affects our health outcomes, thanks to the way in which society shapes us as men and women.
Chicago's largest-ever public art installation, Color Jam, was unveiled in the heart of the city's Loop -- covering various surfaces of the intersection of State and Adams with multihued, geometric shapes.
Historians once debated the relative importance of the "great man" theory of events compared to the "inevitable forces" or trends as the shapers of history.
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty weaves saplings into whirling, animated shapes. He often says his first piece of artwork was his rangy log cabin in North Carolina, his only permanent piece.
After being rescued from a two-month ordeal in a Chilean mine, Edison Pena is planning to run the New York Marathon. He was able to stay in shape by running up to 7 miles a day in the mine's closed-off tunnels.
One of the largest highly non-spherical bodies in the solar system, Hyperion has an irregular shape, chaotic rotation and unexplained sponge-like appearance.
Watermelons naturally assume the shape of the receptacle they are stored in. Unfortunately the novelty comes at double the cost of a normally shaped melon.