For the first time in more than 200 years, a team of mathematicians from Rice, Stanford and Indiana universities has discovered a new shape of geometrical minimal shape. Their 'genus one helicoid ...

They found that Kelvin was actually right — there was a coupling, or a relationship, between the movement of a helicoid through a fluid and its rotation. As the shape sinks through the silicone ...

The behaviour of the shape, called an isotropic helicoid, has been described in fluid dynamics textbooks, but it hadn’t been directly measured until now. An isotropic helicoid must experience ...

Lord Kelvin — also known as William Thomson — hypothesized a shape known as an isotropic helicoid. As its name implies, the shape would look the same from any angle. Kelvin predicted that such ...

Photo: Cathy Carver Spiral chairs pay homage to both the museum and the helicoid shape of DNA. Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto; Architect: NMRL/Tomoyuki Sakakida. Photo: Farrah Skeiky Dolcezza Coffee and ...

These models facilitated iterative testing of their innovative spiral designs, ultimately resulting in the trimmed helicoid shape. In fact, the computer models were so accurate that only one ...

The Helicoid® technology consists of layers of aligned fibres which are stacked up with a progressive change in fiber orientation which leads to a helicoidal shape. Under impact, the architecture ...