The mirror spider can rapidly shift a patchwork of minuscule reflective plates underneath its abdomen’s outer surface, altering the pattern of mirrorlike flashes. This uncommon display comes from ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Biologists and designers have long been fascinated by repeating ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...

Auburn, N.Y. – As a child, artist Werner Sun spent hours folding origami and making geometric forms out of construction paper. That early exposure to shapes and patterns led Sun not only to his career ...

For centuries, mathematicians and floor designers alike have been fascinated by the shapes that can tile a plane — in particular, those that do so without repetition. Now, a team of chemists has ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Windows and macOS let you accomplish your tasks on a computer in largely similar ways, with a few fundamental differences in UI and system behavior thrown in here and there. There are a few apps to ...