On a March day in 2023, Ben Alessio, then a research assistant at CU Boulder, was wandering around the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, California, when he clocked a surprising sight: a male ornate boxfish ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Nature is alive with a special type of pattern called fractals. From the smallest ice crystal to the vastness of the galaxy, fractals are the building blocks of the natural world.

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

I'm not a botanist but rather an amateur naturalist, captivated by the myriad aspects of nature that surround me. Despite not being an astronomer, the Big Bang and the celestial elements it birthed ...

Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy traces the hidden patterns linking Shakespeare, symmetry, artificial intelligence, and football, arguing that mathematics is not cold calculation but the quiet engine of ...