From leopards to zebras, science explain how nature’s chemical dances create spots, stripes and swirls across animal skins ...

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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 ...

From food webs to Facebook—even inside our own brains—the networks that bind us exhibit an all too familiar hub-and-spoke pattern. It appears over and over again. Connected clusters link people or ...

Can art and science really be interconnected? Scientists collect data, conduct experiments and make discoveries. Artists tell stories and tap into life's intangible spaces to shed light on the human ...

A protracted view : the relationship between mapmakers and naturalists in recording the land / Margaret Pritchard -- Cultivated lives, cultivated spaces : the scientific garden in Philadelphia, ...

Researchers have discovered brand new interference patterns in twisted two-dimensional tungsten ditelluride lattices. These so-called moir patterns can be tuned to look like periodic spots or even one ...

For centuries, mathematicians and floor designers alike have been fascinated by the shapes that can tile a plane — in particular, those that do so without repetition. Now, a team of chemists has ...