The kitchen backsplash is the perfect place to explore interesting tile patterns, from bold geometric to petite penny round ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. No one enjoys suffering. People who persistently find themselves in ...

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

Employing the technique known as “trompe-l’oeil,” designers have mimicked three-dimensional surfaces to elevate rooms. Le Grand Tour wallpaper, from Schumacher with the designer Johnson Hartig, ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Long thought impossible, the discovery rewrote what ...

Technology has the same story arc every single time something new develops. It starts as something we all share, then becomes something we each own. Your great-grandmother waited in line to use the ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...

We are all familiar with the cliche “be careful what you wish for.” Of course, cliches become cliches because, more often than not, they are proven true or serve as indicators of regularly repeating ...

Sonam Sherpa doing research on the Yala glacier in the Central Himalaya region of High Mountain Asia. The Yala glacier has shrunk in area by nearly 70% since the 1970s due to climate change. Glaciers ...

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