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

Created in 1934, the Ludo bracelet features updates like delicate mesh in hexagon and briquette motifs, woven by the maison’s craftsmen to heighten the effect of a supple ribbon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

Rooms which should contain other passengers in stasis, instead hold walls of hexagon bed tubes puzzled together like a honeycomb.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

They also changed the particles from flat hexagons into more three-dimensional, diamond-shaped structures.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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