Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...

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 by University of Alberta scientists shows that one movement started by a single individual ripples through the entire group of animals and helps them form intricate and complicated ...

The strikingly patterned ornate boxfish has no lack of detail when it comes to its hexagonal spots and keen stripes — the intricate markings are so sharp-edged in the species that it had engineers at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. With temperatures consistently dropping ...

Scientists study the fractal patterns in individual trees to study forest structure and function. The intricate pattern of buds within buds, similar patterns at different scale, in Romanesco broccoli.