More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists—to ...

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists—to ...

A century ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological ...

BOSTON (Kyodo) -- A group of 11 Japanese scientists won the Ig Nobel prize in biology on Thursday for their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the ...

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly ...

Those distinctive stripes might not be camouflage after all. JOE PENNEY/Reuters/Corbis How did zebras get their stripes? There’s no way to look back into evolutionary history and pinpoint the reason ...

Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive. Now engineers at the ...

The same physical process that helps to remove dirt from laundry could explain how tropical fish and other patterned animals get their spots, according to new research. Published in Science Advances, ...

Of the nearly 60 million pet cats in the United States, one of the most common is the classic tabby—a coat pattern that features stripes, dots, and swirls and what looks like an M imprinted on the cat ...

Footballers wearing striped kits may have an advantage over their opponents because the pattern quickly becomes blurry when it's moving. That's according to scientists at Newcastle University, who ...