If you walk through Midtown in New York City and look up, you’ll see a string of nondescript buildings towering over the street. Taken in as a whole, the buildings are mostly underwhelming—just ...

Biological cells are surrounded by a membrane, and here some of the most important processes for sustaining life take place. There can also be something very beautiful happening in membranes, ...

"We do not yet know what the possible biological function of this might be. There should be a reason for the patterns, we just have not discovered it yet", says associate professor Adam Cohen Simonsen ...

Geraldine Cox does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Lasercutters are amazingly versatile tools that can help you build all manner of complicated structures if you can break them down into a series of planar parts. [David] had spotted artworks at the ...

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 physical ...

Nature is brimming with beautiful patterns, like the seemingly complex shapes of snowflakes, coastlines, clouds and seashells. But zoom in, and you'll see fractals, meaning the same, simple pattern ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Tazhib (gilding) is an Arabic word which has been derived from “zahab” meaning “gold”. Gilding currently means to draw beautiful patterns of plants or geometrical shapes on the ...

Pretty leaf frost patterns on a car windscreen in Aberdeen Clear nights and plunging temperatures can lead to a thick frost by daybreak and even though scraping the car windscreen is rarely fun the ...

Scientists can tell where whiskey came from by the patterns it creates. This is an Inside Science story. It started with a sabbatical and a case of whiskey. Time away from the usual research and ...