There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...

Alloy Enterprises has developed a new additive manufacturing technique that can improve liquid cooling performance while ...

BraDiPho (Brain Dissection Photogrammetry) is an innovative tool for the study of white matter connections in the human brain ...

The breakdown of glyphosate in soils is fundamentally influenced by three key factors: oxygen availability, soil biology and the presence of cultivations.

The published paper reports on the results of more than 5 years of collaboration and introduces a new instrument that the ...

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic patterns and can be modeled using Turing’s diffusion function. The challenge ...

Many climate scientists call our current epoch the “Anthropocene” — the first human-driven climate era. Many technologists ...

Champaign (U. of I.) have been working on resolving a grand challenge for molecular biology, and more specifically, genetic research: how to take a high-resolution image of DNA to facilitate study.

Nature creates incredible works of living art through its many different animal patterns, such as a leopard’s spots or a ...

Imperfections in animal patterns could inspire adaptive materials that shift color, shape, and function like nature itself.

It will be the first era in which humanity must govern, innovate, collaborate and coexist at a planetary scale in order to ...