BME researchers' discovery featured on the cover of Scientific American

Probably not since the success of Gömböc has a Hungarian scientific achievement had such a coverage in the international press as the research published in the autumn by BME researchers on a new universal class of shapes. Most recently, soft cells were discussed by Scientific American in two separate articles.

The December issue of the magazine features an eight-page article on the study of Gábor Domokos and his colleagues:

It's one of the four featured topics on the cover( top right corner):

And at the end of the year, the editors of Scientificamerican.com included it in a compilation of the most interesting mathematical discoveries of 2024,

placing it at the top of the list.

To mark the occasion, it's worth recalling how many forums in the scientific world commemorated the discovery by the researchers of BME during the last few months (the list is not exhaustive, we've only selected the most interesting ones).

An article was published by

- Nature, perhaps the world's best-known scientific journal;

- BBC science magazine Science Focus;

- Smithsonian, the journal of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC;

- Fields Institute in Toronto, a major research institute in mathematical sciences;

- Oxford University Mathematical Institute;

- Math Voices, the journal of the American Mathematical Society;

- the Thai edition of National Geographic;

- Spektrum, the largest German-language science journal;

- Switzerland's largest television broadcaster, SRF;

- the largest Austrian political daily, Der Standard;

- and popular science publications such as Phys.org, IFL Science, Popular Science and Scinexx.de.

We won't go into a list of social media posts, but will mention one: the Harvard University math department shared the Nature article mentioned above.

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