If you walk through Midtown in New York City and look up, you’ll see a string of nondescript buildings towering over the street. Taken in as a whole, the buildings are mostly underwhelming—just ...

Nature is brimming with beautiful patterns, like the seemingly complex shapes of snowflakes, coastlines, clouds and seashells. But zoom in, and you'll see fractals, meaning the same, simple pattern ...

Lasercutters are amazingly versatile tools that can help you build all manner of complicated structures if you can break them down into a series of planar parts. [David] had spotted artworks at the ...

Humans love to tease signals from noise. We see a man in the moon, Mother Mary in a piece of toast, Lady Luck in a winning run at the casino. Alex MacLean deftly plays to this tendency in his stunning ...

Scientists can tell where whiskey came from by the patterns it creates. This is an Inside Science story. It started with a sabbatical and a case of whiskey. Time away from the usual research and ...

[Pask Makes] has previously made Kumiko patterns in wood and was happy with the results, but he wondered if he could make something visually similar from metal instead of wood. For that, he reached ...

It may look identical to the spirograph patterns created by children - but in fact this incredible image shows the path of a space telescope. It shows NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which ...

"We do not yet know what the possible biological function of this might be. There should be a reason for the patterns, we just have not discovered it yet", says associate professor Adam Cohen Simonsen ...

Choosing the right materials is essential for making authentic African geometric pattern baskets. Natural fibers like sisal, raffia, or palm leaves are commonly used because of their durability and ...