Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

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.

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 ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

The “extra touches” to intricate webs - known as stabilimenta - enable the eight-legged hunters to find their next meal.

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 ...

There is a scene in the animated blockbuster "Finding Nemo" when a school of fish makes a rapid string of complicated patterns—an arrow, a portrait of young Nemo and other intricate designs. While the ...

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