eh_why_not
10 hours ago
Looking past Nature magazine's unnecessarily fancy/clickbait title, the original work's [0] title is "Soft cells and the geometry of seashells".
[0] https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/9/pgae311/77546...
crazygringo
9 hours ago
It's also funny that while the title uses the baity word "discover", the very first paragraph merely claims the mathematicians "described" the shapes.
I know that in newspapers and magazines, editors write headlines rather than authors to get clicks, regardless of accuracy. I would have thought Nature would try to be better though...
chairmansteve
5 hours ago
The Nature empire is just another click bait factory.
excalibur
8 hours ago
Reminds me of those stupid Lipozene ads circa 2012:
"Researchers have now discovered a capsule that helps reduce this 'body fat', and control your weight."
A_D_E_P_T
8 hours ago
It's pretty egregious clickbait for Nature -- more along the lines of what I'd expect from Forbes or a similar outfit.
I mean, the title is saying that they "discovered" the "new class of shape" featured in this old kitchen tile: https://www.contemporist.com/reasons-why-you-should-get-crea...
Come on, now. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans were surely aware of it, and used similar pointed/curved and lenticular shapes in art and design.
gradschoolfail
4 hours ago
The actual discovery seems to be buried in the midsection
>…suspected that the actual 3D chamber had no corners at all. “That sounded unbelievable,” says Domokos. “But later we found that she was right.”
Fwiw its also not obvious from the main paper, you have to look at fig 7 d-e for an idea
So in this case, i’d place some of the blame on the mathematicians themselves for failure to properly follow up on the bait. (But nature shall not be absolved from holding them to a higher standard)