Mirror neurons in our brain fire when we view patterns – this can produce a sense of identification with letters (Getty) Some researchers believe that the key to understanding this transition is ...

A mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or the movement of the stockmarket. The method, ...

It’s a bit too small to cover the floor of the laboratory, but chemists in Europe have used self-assembling molecules to create a nanoscale version of an Archimedean tiling pattern. Archimedean ...