While you may think certain patterns repeating are just coincidences, many of them have a much different explanation.

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Using normal graphics processors, a new program for identifying repeated patterns in complex networks significantly boosts search performance. Using normal graphics processors, a new program for ...

Spot the Hidden 98 Among the Zig-Zag Random Numbers in this Visual Brain Teaser: The above image is a visual brain teaser, ...

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 ...