Learn about the surface area and volume of prisms with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

It should surprise no one that MIT has an origami team whose goal is to create a third level version of a 3-D fractal known as a Menger Sponge, whose ultimate incarnation is a shape with zero ...

The long skinny tube shape of capillaries gives them a big surface area compared to their volume, which makes them ideal for leaking oxygen and nutrients to the surrounding tissues, and sucking up ...

Instead, bubbles are spherical, which lets them keep their surface area, and the energy cost of maintaining it, as small as possible while also enveloping as much gas, like air, as they can.

Learn about the surface area and volume of a cylinder with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.