Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

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We all love a hero. Not only do we want him to win, but we want to be him. But let’s face it, a hero is only as good as the villain is bad. In some stories, heroes and villains may seem like complete ...

An equation of the form \(y = mx + c\) where \(m\) and \(c\) are numbers, gives a straight line when values of \(x\) and corresponding values of \(y\) are plotted on a grid. A straight line is a ...

Quantum groups have been studied intensively in mathematics and have found many valuable applications in theoretical and mathematical physics since their discovery in the mid-1980s. Roughly speaking, ...

For thirty years, Michael Friedman has been exploring Time in all its forms: in science, in culture, in the objects that measure it, but also in our most intimate perceptions. A historian, an expert ...