Pattern

Buckminster Fuller’s visionary, big ideas

Buckminster R. Fuller, born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, was a renowned polymath,…

Letter patterns alter the perception of truth

The phrase “A causes B” appears in a lot of statements that consumers come across…

Pattern detection and sequence learning

Humans learn and make decisions in large part through recognizing patterns. Research on the neurocomputational…

Finding structure in the brain’s static

The entire brain experiences slow, sustained waves of electrical activity when you sleep, much like…

Peculiar patterns of vibrating floating particles

In 2020, Héctor Alarcón, at O’Higgins University, Chile, and his colleagues started studying the forces…

Hologram of a single photon

In 2016, scientists from the University of Warsaw created the first-ever hologram of a single…

A patterned fingerprint of the brain

Studying multiple neural networks, researchers from EPFL Switzerland found that every one of us has…

Complex thoughts are enabled by fractal networks

Fractals are forms that seem similar at different sizes in the area of geometry. Shapes…

A geometric framework for protein and cell diffusion and interaction

Protein pattern generation has been extensively explored experimentally in recent years. Proteins diffusing and interacting…

Entropy and energy influence polygonal nets folding into Platonic solids

What makes an object successful at folding? Protein scientists study how an object transforms between…