While setting out to fabricate new springs to support a cephalopod-inspired imaging project, a group of researchers stumbled upon a surprising discovery: the hemihelix, a shape rarely seen in nature.

In a surprising discovery, Harvard scientists have stumbled across an entirely new shape — while playing with elastic bands. In a surprising discovery, Harvard scientists have stumbled across an ...

Using some plain old rubber strips, scientists have created a whole new shape -- a hemihelix, a long spiral that switches twisting directions over its length. The shape, described in the journal PLOS ...

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Rubber bands may provide important clues for fabricating a variety of 3D shapes from flat parts, according to results published April 23, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Jia Lui from ...