In our fast-paced world, it's easy to overlook the subtle cues around us. Yet, nature, in its infinite wisdom, often tries to ...

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 ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers have advanced their breakthrough theory – and it could help ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

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Stripes! Hexagons! They're everywhere! These patterns in nature might seem like aesthetic coincidences, but they are actually ...