A humpback whale off New Caledonia can hold a song for 30 minutes or longer, cycling through phrases that shift and evolve ...
This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...
Music and mathematics might seem like unlikely bedfellows. One lives in the realm of feeling and expression, the other in cold logic and numbers. Yet scratch beneath the surface of history's most ...
Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...
Sean Gourley: When we sat down and looked at a conflict like Iraq, we saw that there were very strong mathematical patterns in size of attacks. And then when we looked at a conflict in a different ...