Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sandsara is a tabletop kinetic sculpture that creates infinite art patterns in the sand. To the naked eye, it’s simply a ...

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 ...

If we probe deeper into any phenomena — astronomy, the cycle of life, mathematics — we arrive at the concept of infinity. It is the most abstract of abstractions, although mathematicians have tried to ...

Most patterns eventually repeat themselves. But in the 1970s, mathematician Roger Penrose discovered a set of shapes that could cover an infinite plane without ever repeating. Known as Penrose tilings ...

A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat. Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just ...