In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones based on natural things, like the silhouette of a tree or fur pattern of an ...

Extraterrestrial life might have existed on Mars millions of years ago as evident in the cyclic climate on the red planet. The peer-reviewed study titled "Sustained wet-dry cycling on early Mars" ...

(via It's Okay to Be Smart) From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. Many of these patterns even resemble geometric shapes. One of the most common? Hexagons. Why do ...

Hankook Tire & Technology has patented a tire featuring a sidewall pattern formed by hexagon-shaped unit patterns. The design includes concaved portions and is tailored to fit the shape of the pattern ...

Since about 1970, soccer balls have been stitched or glued together from 32 patches of material—12 of them five-sided and 20 of them six-sided. These patches are arranged so that each pentagon is ...