In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Researchers analyzing ancient pottery from Northern Mesopotamia have identified what may be the world's earliest botanical art. These finely painted vessels, produced by the Halafian culture, feature ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

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Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Analysis by Hebrew University researchers shows 8,000-year-old Halafian pottery sherds bearing symmetry and numerical patterning in images of trees, flowers and shrubs The post Study of prehistoric ...