Biophysics

Theories and methods of physics that provide an understanding of how biological systems and phenomena work.

Decoding the Mathematical Secrets of Plants’ Spiraling Leaf Patterns

Plant leaves are arranged in a beautiful geometric pattern around the stem, which is known…

Peculiar patterns of vibrating floating particles

In 2020, Héctor Alarcón, at O’Higgins University, Chile, and his colleagues started studying the forces…

The fractal-hyperbolic geometry of networks

Network geometry helps us better understand complex systems at all sizes of organizations, as well…

The geometry of atomic bonds

In 2012, a team from IBM’s research labs in Zurich managed to reveal the individual…

A patterned fingerprint of the brain

Studying multiple neural networks, researchers from EPFL Switzerland found that every one of us has…

Hidden order in disorder

Hyperuniformity is a geometric concept to probabilistically characterise the structure of ordered and disordered materials.…

Icosahedral nano-shell designed to trap virus particles

An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an efficient strategy…

The shape of a perfect egg, defined by a universal formula

The shape of an egg has been demonstrated throughout evolution to be one of the…

Embryo geometry: a theory of evolution from a single cell to the complex vertebrate body

One of biology’s biggest mysteries is the genesis of animal form. Biologists trying to understand…

A geometric framework for protein and cell diffusion and interaction

Protein pattern generation has been extensively explored experimentally in recent years. Proteins diffusing and interacting…