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Scientists found a repeating math pattern inside the human body

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
NPR

How crocodiles get their scale patterns (Hint: It's unlike other animals)

Many animals get their external marking—like, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. Scientists normally explain the spectacular ...
Science Daily

Envisioning a new engineering field: Understanding atomic-scale patterns

The phenomenon that forms interference patterns on television displays when a camera focuses on a pattern like a person wearing stripes has inspired a new way to conceptualize electronic devices.
Nature

Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients

Studies of altitudinal gradients in species richness have increasingly replaced the latitudinal gradient as a model template for large-scale gradient studies 9. Altitudinal gradients encompass several ...
JSTOR Daily

Fine-scale spatial patterns in grassland communities depend on species clonal dispersal ability and interactions with neighbours

1. Non-random spatial patterns are a common feature of plant communities. However, the mechanisms leading to their formation remain unknown. The clonal dispersal ability of a species, that is, the ...