Uncover 25 alarming patterns in nature that signal disaster. From strange animal behavior to silent forests, learn how to ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

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Jon McCormack’s camera is drawn to the place where life and its constraints – gravity, fluid dynamics, climate, light and time – meet and are "in conversation" with each other. "Life then responds ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...