Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just a stressful task for DIY home renovators. It is also one of the hardest problems in mathematics. For centuries, experts have been studying the special ...

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

This summer, rather than color being the focus of fashion, patterns are everywhere. From tribal florals to retro geometrics, there's a vast choice of pattern to style ourselves with. The good news is ...

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 ...

Patterns are all around us, in nature as well as in art and design. We see patterns where shapes, lines or colours are repeated. How complicated a pattern is depends on what is repeated and the way in ...

Well-defined cylindrical and cuboidal silicon micropillar arrays arranged in square, rectangular and hexagonal patterns were fabricated using standard contact photolithography and deep-reactive ion ...

Across the dry deserts of southern Peru lies a landscape that seems at first completely ordinary. The ground is flat, pale and silent, stretching so far that the horizon looks blurred in the heat. For ...