Nature is full of strange and unsettling patterns, and some animals take it to the next level. From hole-covered skin to ...

One of the simplest and most beautiful naturally occurring patterns can be observed when light is shined through a pair of slightly misaligned periodic structures. This phenomenon, known as the moiré ...

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.

A team at CU Boulder has made a curious state of matter in which particles move constantly—like a clock with hands and gears ...

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins - ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Researchers have created a first-of-its-kind map that works to pinpoint where naturally occurring ...

Illinois biochemistry professor Satish Nair and his colleagues discovered a new class of DNA-protein hybrids and determined the mechanisms by which they are formed in bacterial cells. The findings ...