hexagon

"Given Saturn's symmetry in its north-south jet stream system, we have been searching for a counterpart to Saturn's northern hexagon on the south pole in Hubble images since 1990," Sánchez-Lavega said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

The scoreboard is a hexagon, just like the one at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

Stripped of their brown paint and polished, each fragment will weigh 18 grams, or just over half an ounce, and be fashioned into a hexagon — the shape of France.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

The French sometimes refer to their country as “L’Hexagone” — the hexagon — because of its shape.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

When I return to my room the pods are gone and replaced with a beehive of backlit hexagon cells, just like all the Collective’s quarters.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The scoreboards in Ontario, he said, are planned as hexagons — just like the ones at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024

This process starts with the assembly of small, triangular parts into hexagons, which subsequently join up with pentagons to form the icosahedral structures of viral capsids.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

Ridges of radiating lines that are designed to reflect light, a nod to Paris’ nickname as the City of Light, surround the hexagons.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

At the Richmond, California, plant of the company Coherent, an assembly line is polishing three 1.5-meter mirrors each month before trimming them into hexagons.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 17, 2023

Bees know enough geometry to make row after row of perfect hexagons, angles so accurate you’d think they used rulers.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd