geometry

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"By converting 2D nanosheets into 1D scrolls, we prevent this nano-confinement effect. The open, tubular geometry effectively creates 'highways' for rapid transport, allowing ions to move freely."

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

These changes cause the decay rate to vary significantly depending on the geometry.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Though this mind-set prevented the Indians from contributing much to geometry, it had another, unexpected effect.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife