Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like ...

This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring ...

Why do humans love to look at patterns? I can only guess, but I’ve written a whole book about new mathematical ways to make them. In Creating Symmetry, The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, I ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When you look through a kaleidoscope, the ...

Though it may sound like science fiction, the paper recently published in International Journal of Jungian Studies is firmly rooted in the psychological theories of Carl Jung. Jung suggested that our ...