Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Animals come in all shapes and sizes, but also pretty much all patterns. Those patterns might function as camouflage, aid in ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

New research helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other creatures. Their findings could inform the development of new high-tech materials and drugs. Nature has ...

Researchers developed a method to pattern gold nanoparticles with atomic precision, creating patchy particles with new shapes and functions for advanced technologies. (Nanowerk News) Inspired by an ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.

Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive. Now engineers at CU ...