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

Extracting regularities from temporal sequences of events is central to human cognition. By identifying patterns, people form predictions about upcoming events. If, when waiting at a train crossing, ...

Scientists have discovered a way to control how tiny flat molecules fit together in a seemingly random pattern. Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a way to control how tiny ...

Behavioral researchers have long known that humans are drawn to symmetry. But there are many different types of symmetries in the world and many shapes in which they appear. So which ones are the most ...

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 ...

Whoever said random means rattled, let artist Luis Lopa revamp their dictionary. Tonight at A Space Gallery, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., drop by the opening night of his solo exhibition Apophenia, and see ...