Nature has always whispered warnings to those who know how to listen. Long before sophisticated weather satellites and seismic monitoring networks existed, indigenous peoples and farmers relied on ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

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 ...

Photographer Jon McCormack’s new monograph, “Patterns: Art of the Natural World,” is a beautiful visual love letter to nature and all its intricate patterns, from microscopic and rarely-seen to vast ...

Across the animal kingdom, many species are covered in simple, solid colors, while others display patterns that seem random and chaotic. But some animals seem to follow the rules of mathematics, ...