Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

Jon McCormack’s camera is drawn to the place where life and its constraints – gravity, fluid dynamics, climate, light and ...

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Scientists solve a 20-year mystery after studying a rare clownfish, revealing how cells organize to create patterns across ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Nature is alive with a special type of pattern called fractals. From the smallest ice crystal to the vastness of the galaxy, fractals are the building blocks of the natural world.

In 1999, a clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) hatched in the aquarium of a tropical fish hobbyist in the UK. These clownfish ...

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 ...