Ever wanted an actual one-of-a-kind bathroom or kitchen? Well, mathematicians have found the perfect tile for you. A team from the University of Arkansas have discovered the first shape that can cover ...

Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise ...

SOME correspondence appeared in NATURE in 1938 about the phenomenon described by Brewster 1, which is obtained by focusing on a surface covered by a repeating pattern while converging on a point ...