Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...

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 ...

Imperfections in animal patterns could inspire adaptive materials that shift color, shape, and function like nature itself.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Nature is alive with a special type of pattern called fractals. From the smallest ice crystal to the vastness of the galaxy, fractals are the building blocks of the natural world.

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The earwig’s delicate, paper-thin wings open to more than ten times their folded size, thanks to its origami-like creases. ETH ZÜRICH and Purdue University Image As the microscopic, tear-shaped ...

Scientists have been trying for decades to crack the code of how different animal patterns emerge from a mass of developing ...

We often think of ancestry as something that lives in genealogy records or DNA tests—a set of coordinates to chart where we came from. But what if our ancestors also left behind a different kind of ...

Have you ever caught yourself completely smitten by the quiet charm of wooden décor? There’s something timeless about it, the way it exudes warmth and elegance, while whispering stories of forests, ...