Scientists explore the physics of how polarization-filtered colors emerge, how they can be controlled, and why subtle changes in viewing angle, sample orientation, and the order of layers of films ...

Ask Vallo Riberto and Kazmier Maslanka to explain what separates “mathematical visual poetry” from other text-based art movements and you’ll get any number of answers. Words like “algebraic” and ...

Video produced by Maria Bartholdi. Emily Lynch goes through life looking for patterns. During the day, Lynch works for a math publishing company in Minneapolis, training teachers to use materials that ...

Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing numbers. Despite this dedicated cluster, mathematical ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...