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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Infinity Project: Patterns Strange powers and void-like beings threaten the struggling normalcy of the Nameless City, a hopeful region at the end of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

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 ...