Nature has a way of turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, from the intricate patterns on a butterfly’s wings to the ...

To find out, Sharon and his team dissected rose petals, devised theoretical models, created computer simulations and ...

Transmission strings reveal temperature differences around WASP-17b’s atmosphere, adding detail beyond an average planetary ...

Many complex quantum systems rapidly lose the recognizable patterns of their initial states as their components interact. To ...

Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats over and over again. This is a similar feature to that of CRISPR, the basis ...

Building with nature is an important concept in our coastal defense. After all, by harnessing natural processes, we are more ...

If you take a single strip of paper, give it one twist, and join the ends together, the distinction between front and back ...

For decades, improving the accuracy of track forecasts for dangerous hurricanes like Isaias plodded along at a slow and ...

Welcome back to “Fractal Harmonics.” If you’ve been following the column, you’ve journeyed into the depths of natural and ...

Researchers have built the first harvest scheduling model that directly controls the spatial texture of mature and old-growth ...

A large study of families suggests that a child's own DNA drives their ADHD traits by mid-childhood, finding no robust ...

A survey of 2,210 woody plants in the water source forests of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project shows that rare ...