Color patterns seen in fish and other animals evolved to serve various purposes. Lagunatic Photo/iStock via Getty Images Plus A thought experiment can help visualize the challenge of achieving ...

Where do you see patterns in chaos? It has been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on ...

The chromatophore pattern on oval squid Left, a picture of a six-week old squid, with (right) a zoom in on the chromatophore pattern, with chromatophores highlighted by green dotted circles. The ...

It is difficult to remain unimpressed by CERN, on many levels. The sheer size, intricacy and technology of the machinery deployed over tens of years to reach ever higher collisional energies, to probe ...

STM characterization of an in situ-created stadium-shaped GQD. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08190-6 Patterns in chaos have been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an ...

Fractal patterns that arise when healthy human cells turn cancerous have been observed for the first time by scientists in the US. Using an atomic force microscope (AFM), Igor Sokolov and colleagues ...