After thousands of years of trying, mathematicians are still working out the number known as pi or "π". We typically think of pi as approximately 3.14 but the most successful attempt to calculate it ...

While you may think certain patterns repeating are just coincidences, many of them have a much different explanation.

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration ...

Using normal graphics processors, a new program for identifying repeated patterns in complex networks significantly boosts search performance. Using normal graphics processors, a new program for ...