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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To get started, collect all the necessary materials. You will need plain tote bags, fabric paint or ink, brushes or sponges, ...

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 ...

Philip Ball's Patterns in Nature is a jaw-dropping exploration of why the world looks the way it does, with 250 color photographs of the most dramatic examples of the “sheer splendor” of physical ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Computer science professor Paul Bourke has an exhaustive amount of information about fractals on his website, but for my money the coolest part is his collection of naturally occurring fractal images ...