NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of thousands of unexplained honeycomb-shaped polygons spread across Martian rocks, ...

Hong Wang, one of this year’s winners of the Fields Medals, which honor the top mathematicians under the age of 40, once ...

Across the animal kingdom, many species are covered in simple, solid colors, while others display patterns that seem random and chaotic. But some animals seem to follow the rules of mathematics, ...

There's no doubt about it: The '70s were a profoundly influential time in the world of interior design. Even as decor trends recycle, it seems like incorporating 1970s-style decor into contemporary ...

This paper presents a novel hierarchical approach for generating complex floral patterns through sequential application of chaotic modulation and fractal transformations. Classical geometric floral ...

Ostrich eggs are huge. Big enough, in fact, for ancient humans to use them as primitive writing surfaces for showcasing their mathematical prowess, according to a new study. The paper, published ...

The mirror spider can rapidly shift a patchwork of minuscule reflective plates underneath its abdomen’s outer surface, altering the pattern of mirrorlike flashes. This uncommon display comes from ...

Photo by Jeff Tome Bees on hexagonal honeycomb. Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones based on natural things, like ...

Have you ever looked at a Jackson Pollock painting and thought “I could do this”? According to researchers at the University of Oregon, you might be wrong about that – unless you happen to be a child.

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 ...