Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Students can get hands-on by incorporating natural objects into curiosity-driven math lessons like measuring and sorting.

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human ...

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic patterns and can be modeled using Turing’s diffusion function. The challenge ...

The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur abundantly in nature. A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

Scientists have uncovered a "hidden order" in drylands across the planet, where plants follow disordered hyperuniformity — a layout that looks random and disorganized up close but adheres to a clear ...