Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

In dryland ecosystems, increased environmental stress often triggers a change from a uniform vegetation cover to patchy ...

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A team of researchers, including psycholinguist Jutta Mueller from the University of Vienna, has discovered that newborns are capable of learning complex sound sequences that follow language-like ...

Scientists say fungi produce electrical patterns similar to the human language, sparking interest in their underground ...