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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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature ...

Typical crack speeds in glass easily surpass a kilometer per second, and broken surface features may be well smaller than a millimeter, so the processes that generate these patterns have been largely ...

Cover image showing the LEGO beam, a simulation illustrating a localized mode (vibrations localized at the left boundary), and the measured "Butterfly" spectrum. Researchers at CU Boulder are using ...

Ankur Gupta receives funding from NSF (CBET - 2238412) and ACS Petroleum Research Fund (65836 - DNI9). A thought experiment can help visualize the challenge of achieving distinctive color patterns.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A beautiful black-and-white image that looks like the pattern on a scarf isn't the work of an upscale French designer. It's the stuff that lines your lungs. The snapshot is a microscopic image that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Artist Visoth Kakvei makes different patterns by drawing on snow, napkins, and banana skin. His work looks even more realistic when digitally retouched. He shares his ...

All the small looms of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild were put to use last week teaching a dozen women patterns used in weaving. Huck and Swedish lace, 4 and 8 harness may sound alien to just about ...

PROVIDENCE – Photographer, journalist and author Christine Chitnis spent the last three years traveling across Portugal, capturing images of the country’s architecture, unique azulejo tiles and ...