Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...

Human brains learn patterns over time and we don’t even realize it. New insight into how this works could improve learning and other cognitive processes. Researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of ...

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