Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Extracting regularities from temporal sequences of events is central to human cognition. By identifying patterns, people form predictions about upcoming events. If, when waiting at a train crossing, ...

Scientists have discovered a way to control how tiny flat molecules fit together in a seemingly random pattern. Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a way to control how tiny ...

Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.

Behavioral researchers have long known that humans are drawn to symmetry. But there are many different types of symmetries in the world and many shapes in which they appear. So which ones are the most ...