An optical illusion challenges viewers to find a subtle anomaly within a repeating pattern of the letters HJKL. The brain's ...

Once a machine-vision system has acquired an image, a software image-analysis algorithm, known as a pattern-finding tool (PFT), must determine whether the image contains a particular pattern. While ...

Many scientists, such as the late Stephen Jay Gould, to conclude that each group of living things evolves in its own idiosyncratic manner. But now biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have ...

John Edward McCarthy is partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant DMS 2054199. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the ...

Patterns often look like traps, but getting lost in them can teach you more about yourself and what you want in life than you expect. When you keep circling the same habits or choices, it reveals ...