Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of ...
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 ...
Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.