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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...