Patterns like these begin to form at a small scale when materials undergo processes like drying, freezing, wrinkling, diffusing and reacting. Those changes then give rise to complex patterns at a ...

Nature is full of patterns. Among them are tiling patterns, which mimic what you'd see on a tiled bathroom floor, characterized by both tiles and interfaces -- such as grout -- in between.

Inspired by nature Natural materials commonly exhibit disorder at small scales. In addition to human bone, the researchers ...

Patterns like these begin to form at a small scale when materials undergo processes like drying, freezing, wrinkling, diffusing and reacting. Those changes then give rise to complex patterns at a ...

In a 2021 study, Sottos and her colleagues established frontal polymerization as a reliable method to manufacture biologically inspired polymer materials. Now, their novel technique builds on this by ...

Evolution of the field dependence of STM spectra with density. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08550-2 "Since Hofstadter's original work, there have been many experiments and ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

In nature, bubbles that occur when ocean waves break or where raindrops have fallen create a self-similar pattern with thin films of liquid separating various-sized gas pockets.

Nature-inspired patterns boost polymer toughness (VIDEO) Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology ...

This is unlike in nature, where boundaries are often sharp and colors are well separated. Moray eels have distinctive patterns on their skin. Asergieiev/iStock via Getty Images ...