Have you ever found yourself captivated by the intricate repeating designs on fabric, wrapping paper, and more? There’s something truly magical about repeating patterns that can transform ordinary ...

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 ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that's covered with tiny squares? It's the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a "periodic tiling of space", with shapes covering an ...

The drama of domestic life is, for the most part, predictable. There are people playing roles for which they are more or less suited; there is a delimited setting; there are predefined relationships; ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

Why does going back to your ex feel so natural, even when you know nothing will change? Have you noticed that in your relationships, you keep meeting different people who somehow feel familiar? They ...

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It’s a drumless record with an acoustic softness, written quickly and produced roughly which gives an authenticity and low maintenance feel that is welcome in the slickly filtered instaworld we all ...