Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...

but we're going to talk about reflective symmetry. If you draw a line down something and the two sides are a reflection of each other, you have found the line of symmetry, or the mirror line.

This remarkable internal organization means that what bees store on one side of a honeycomb is replicated on the opposite side.

Watch the video below from BBC Bitesize KS2 Maths which shows the lines of symmetry on a square, triangle, rectangle and circle. A 2D shape is symmetrical if a line can be drawn through it and ...

"By means of a desymmetrization process that breaks the planar symmetry, we have converted them into elementary synthetic blocks of more complex molecules," explained her thesis supervisor Reyes ...

If you're feeling puzzled, we're here to help break it down. Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), using muon spin ...