Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sandsara is a tabletop kinetic sculpture that creates infinite art patterns in the sand. To the naked eye, it’s simply a ...

Most patterns eventually repeat themselves. But in the 1970s, mathematician Roger Penrose discovered a set of shapes that could cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Known as Penrose tilings ...

Mathematicians are finding inevitable structures in sufficiently large sets of integers. Despite that, Furstenberg’s paper left a lasting imprint on mathematics. His new argument contained a kernel of ...

Light projected into a mirrored room creates seemingly infinite patterns in this installation by Turkish artist Refik Anadol, at this year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. For the Infinity ...

Last winter, Julia Pozsgai, a 33-year-old Sonoma artist with autism, witnessed the psychedelic miracle of a kaleidoscope at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The brilliant colors and infinite ...

Who’s that in the maze? It’s you. And you again. This isn’t just a setup for super selfies — it’s a sprawling mirror maze with lessons to teach. “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,” at the Arizona ...