If you walk through Midtown in New York City and look up, you’ll see a string of nondescript buildings towering over the street. Taken in as a whole, the buildings are mostly underwhelming—just ...

If we probe deeper into any phenomena — astronomy, the cycle of life, mathematics — we arrive at the concept of infinity. It is the most abstract of abstractions, although mathematicians have tried to ...

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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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest option—they fit together without any gaps in a grid pattern that can ...

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 ...

A happening could be watching a tiny honey possum sipping nectar from pale golden banksia cones. The epiphany was noticing that this unique WA marsupial, allegedly nocturnal, was scampering about in ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.