Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

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’s full of illusionists, and they’re not all hiding in plain sight by accident. Across the animal kingdom, creatures have evolved remarkable ways to stay alive by blending in, standing out, or ...

‘Bottom-up fabrication’, which exploits the intrinsic properties of atoms and molecules to direct their self-organization, is widely used to make relatively simple nanostructures. A key goal for this ...

Looking for a challenging and stimulating activity? Try solving a pattern-based puzzle posted on Instagram by Optical Illusions. The puzzle presents three patterns and asks you to predict the next ...