This research, conducted by Liu Jiaqi from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wang Aoran from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and other scientists from multiple top ...

Across nature, animals from swarming insects to herding mammals can organize into seemingly choreographed motion. Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that these coordinated ...

Scientists have gained new insights into how the eye of Drosophila processes motion patterns that are generated by self-motion through space. They have discovered that direction-selective cells ...

The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns A new book explores the physical and chemical reasons behind incredible visual structures in the living and non-living world ...

Botany of Desire: Patterns in Nature Based on Michael Pollan’s book Botany of Desire, this segment of video clips and lesson plans explores how people perceive beauty more deeply, by observing ...

Philip Ball's Patterns in Nature is a jaw-dropping exploration of why the world looks the way it does, with 250 color photographs of the most dramatic examples of the “sheer splendor” of ...

In the end, he concludes, nature is an opportunist. This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Nature's patterns” ...

25 spectacular patterns in nature—and where to see them Explore designs in nature with these submissions to the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest.