In the earliest stages of life, mammalian embryos start as a disorganized cluster of cells. As development progresses, these cells become organized into well-defined shapes and structures. This ...
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 ...
3D rendering of cubene, a cube-shaped molecule containing a highly strained double bond. Credit: Neil Garg lab It’s “pushing the limits of what geometric distortion looks like,” Garg says. Cubene and ...