When it comes to the study of both human nature and the natural world, one must be willing to reckon with the fact that a certain degree of chaos will be present in whatever facets of this planet they ...

On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

There are moments when natural scenes feel unsettling because they look designed rather than formed. Hexagonal rock columns, evenly spaced sand ripples, perfectly repeating cloud grids, and ...