Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Anglers often hear the phrase, “When you find a pattern, then you can catch fish.” The problem, of course, is finding that pattern. In many ways, each species of fish is individual. Because of this, ...

That dense pile of unstructured data may look like an impenetrable universe, but upon closer examination, the mammoth mass of raw information holds insights that can greatly benefit healthcare. It ...

It probably looked a little peculiar. A grown man (me), slithering along the hillside on his belly, swimming through thistles and thorns, snapping pictures like a paparazzi gone plant-crazy. But, you ...

“Genius is vision, often involving the gift of finding patterns where others see nothing but a chance collection of objects (Andersen, 2013).” My grandkids loved to play “I Spy.” It is a game we often ...

You've likely heard of hot hands or hot streaks -- periods of repeated successes -- in sports, financial markets and gambling. But do hot streaks exist in individual creative careers? You've likely ...

Once a machine-vision system has acquired an image, a software image-analysis algorithm, known as a pattern-finding tool (PFT), must determine whether the image contains a particular pattern. While ...