Imagine smoke rings seen edge-on and you may gain some insight to what's going on with the deceptive Red Rectangle, which isn't a rectangle at all. The optical illusion is the work of a pair of stars ...

Forget the hourglass – British women are more likely to be a ‘rectangle’, it seems. There are now five times as many rectangular-shaped women as those with the classic Marilyn Monroe hourglass, ...

You might think you have the figure of Marilyn Monroe but according to research the truth is likely to be far more prosaic. A study found nine in ten women didn’t know their body shape – with many ...