The Sandsara is a tabletop kinetic sculpture that creates infinite art patterns in the sand. To the naked eye, it’s simply a hypnotic, eye-catching piece — the sculpture’s tiny ball moves across the ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...

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 ...

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

If you walk through Midtown in New York City and look up, you’ll see a string of nondescript buildings towering over the street. Taken in as a whole, the buildings are mostly underwhelming—just ...

Who’s that in the maze? It’s you. And you again. This isn’t just a setup for super selfies — it’s a sprawling mirror maze with lessons to teach. “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in Nature,” at the Arizona ...

Last winter, Julia Pozsgai, a 33-year-old Sonoma artist with autism, witnessed the psychedelic miracle of a kaleidoscope at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The brilliant colors and infinite ...

A happening could be watching a tiny honey possum sipping nectar from pale golden banksia cones. The epiphany was noticing that this unique WA marsupial, allegedly nocturnal, was scampering about in ...