SAN DIEGO — A mathematical tale of how tigers got their stripes and leopards acquired spots has undergone a slight revision. In 1952, computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing devised a theory about ...
Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...
Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...
Alan Turing's 1952 paper on the origin of biological patterning 1 solved an intellectual problem that had seemed so hopeless that it caused a great developmental biologist, Hans Driesch, to give up ...
Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.