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 ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the core model, a fundamental pattern for understanding how nature operates.