Las Vegas Springs Preserve showcases its interactive exhibit “Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze” through Sunday inside the preserve’s Origen Museum. Numbers in Nature explains mathematical patterns in ...

There are some imperfections, but for the most part these bubbles intersect at three-way junctions with angles close to 120 degrees. This “preference” is dictated by the interplay between the material ...

The discovery may aid research in both mathematics and materials science. “Prime numbers have beautiful structural properties, including unexpected order, hyperuniformity and effective limit-periodic ...

From zebra stripes to a honeycomb lattice, nature features breathtaking patterns. Now, physicists based in China have found a way to recreate these natural motifs in 3-D — using just a little ...