Jim Crutchfield, a pioneer in chaos and complexity theory, wants to understand where patterns and organization come from, how nature makes them, and how we can discover new ones. His modest goal is to ...

Nature Created These Animal Patterns and They Look Almost Too Perfect to Believe ...

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How the leopard got its spots and the zebra its stripes might not be just-so stories much longer. Biologists are beginning to pinpoint the molecular mechanisms animals use to deck themselves out with ...

Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

Most of us are vaguely familiar with the brittle star -- the slender, five-armed cousin of the starfish. But perhaps you were not aware of how amazingly ubiquitous they are throughout all the oceans ...