Have you ever observed the branching of your eye’s blood vessels? Or listened to a piece of music composed using symmetry? At the Museum of Science’s new temporary exhibit, “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in ...

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Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...

In nature, patterns of chemical interactions between two different substances are believed to govern the designs our eyes see—for example, a zebra’s stripes.These stripey designs are governed ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our ...

Chess grandmaster Viswanathand's son Akhil who will make his solo art debut with 'Morphogenesis', in Chennai, chats about art ...

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They're instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, ...

Nature is full of patterns where if you zoom in and out, you see the same structure repeated at different magnifications. Relevance for self-understanding: We can see fractal-like patterns of self ...