In our fast-paced world, it's easy to overlook the subtle cues around us. Yet, nature, in its infinite wisdom, often tries to ...

At a time when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and people spend about 90 percent of their lives indoors, our relationship with the natural world has never been more distant or ...

Stripes! Hexagons! They're everywhere! These patterns in nature might seem like aesthetic coincidences, but they are actually ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

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