Color patterns seen in fish and other animals evolved to serve various purposes. Lagunatic Photo/iStock via Getty Images Plus A thought experiment can help visualize the challenge of achieving ...

Physicists have shown how fluid flows influence the formation of complex patterns. The formation of patterns is a universal phenomenon that underlies fundamental processes in biology. An example are ...

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 ...

You probably never thought twice about the way you breathe, assuming it’s just another basic biological function that everyone does pretty much the same way. Turns out, you couldn’t be more wrong.

Dynamic speckle analysis is a non‐invasive optical technique that exploits the fluctuating interference patterns produced when coherent light, typically from lasers, illuminates a dynamic sample.