Growing up without close friends creates invisible patterns that shape everything from how you love to how you fight, ...

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, ...

3I/Atlas, the interstellar object passing through our solar system, has been making waves lately. Something different is turning up in the data every few days, and people the world over are discussing ...

Scientists have crafted a visible form of a “time crystal,” a strange phase of matter that moves in endlessly repeating patterns when illuminated. Using liquid crystals similar to those in phone ...

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 ...