Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...
Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature, is the newest exhibit inside Frost Science Museum. It's all about how mathematical patterns are all over everything in the natural world. This ...
Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.
A long-standing mystery about repeating patterns in a two-dimensional mathematical game has been solved after more than 50 years with the discovery of two final pieces in the puzzle. The result is ...
A few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece of paper and crumpled it into a seemingly disordered ball of chaos. He held it up for the audience to ...
Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.
The same researchers behind the 13-sided "hat" shape have stumbled upon a version that improves upon the original in a very important way. Reading time 2 minutes In March, a group of mathematicians ...