Data science is a lot more creative than you think it is... For Zeina Alqasem, they speak the same language. Both are driven by interpretation, pattern, and the search for meaning — just through ...

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

The Colorado Rockies have finally made a hire. As reported by Bob Nightengale, the move is official and in true Rockies fashion, it is controversial. Paul DePodesta, who was best known as the ...

Researchers have for the first time created a reconfigurable polariton 2D quasicrystal. The team from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), in collaboration with colleagues from ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...