On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

If whole-organism scaling in sharks is so tightly conserved, what happens when we examine rays, bony fishes or marine mammals with the same precision? Will they follow the same rule, or will they ...

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It’s a universal fact that as any 3D object, from a Platonic sphere to a cell to an elephant, grows outward in all directions, its total surface area will increase more slowly than the space it ...