A picture supposedly showing an unusual wood pattern beneath the bark of a burned tree is met with a wide range of reactions (and humorous comments) whenever it circulates on social media: This is ...

Repeating patterns are often seen in the molecular structures of crystalline materials, and make them easy to break. 'The hat fuels the imagination much as do other unusual tilings,' Dr Kaplan ...

Alongside these, at the Crick Institute in London, the exhibition Deconstructing Patterns (until December 1) demonstrates how even the discipline of bio-medical science is a search for pattern.