Announcing the death of decor minimalism may be a little premature because there is always a place for the quietly disciplined and ordered schema. But in the lately appointed bathrooms, kitchens, ...

Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just a stressful task for DIY home renovators. It is also one of the hardest problems in mathematics. For centuries, experts have been studying the special ...

Mathematicians have discovered a single shape that can be used to cover a surface completely without ever creating a repeating pattern. The long-sought shape is surprisingly simple but has taken ...

The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon. (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and ...

A 13-sided shape known as “the hat” has mathematicians tipping their caps. It’s the first true example of an “einstein,” a single shape that forms a special tiling of a plane: Like bathroom floor tile ...