Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

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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.

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the core model, a fundamental pattern for understanding how nature operates.

We can't protect what we don't understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

With a new spin on a reaction called frontal polymerization, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology can create materials ...