New research sheds light on how a certain kind of pattern in nature arises. Nature is full of patterns. Among them are tiling patterns, which mimic what you'd see on a tiled bathroom floor, ...

The controlling factor that determines whether flies develop compound eyes with square or hexagonal elements has been determined. Tiling patterns in which the same shape is repeated without gaps are ...

Patterning and periodic structures are very important in physics. This led to a tremendous amount of work on learning what shapes can tile an area or fill a volume. It was found that these shapes must ...

Mathematicians want to know when it’s possible to form aperiodic tiling patterns — patterns like the Penrose tilings, which never repeat.Video: DVDP/Quanta Magazine One of the oldest and simplest ...

At a time when artificial intelligence (AI)-centric system-on-chips (SoCs) are growing in size and complexity, network-on-chip (NoC) tiling hand in hand with mesh topology can support faster ...

Sheema Khan is the author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel for their ...

Nature is full of patterns. Among them are tiling patterns, which mimic what you'd see on a tiled bathroom floor, characterized by both tiles and interfaces – such as grout – in between. In nature, a ...

One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time. Since antiquity, artists and geometers have wondered how shapes can tile the entire ...