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 ...

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

This is the second in a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The debate over what early math should look like and what should be included in the Common Core State Standards for math is one of ...

New clues have been uncovered in the mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) from space. One of these strange signals has been repeating seemingly at random – but with years of observation, an ...

Fast radio bursts are having a moment in the science community. After another repeating fast radio signal was traced to a nearby galaxy last month, a new study found that this burst occurs in a ...

A seamlessly-repeating pattern fill can be an attractive background for your company website as well as fliers, business cards and other documents. Creating such a pattern can however be quite tricky ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

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, ...