Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern. Everyone loves zebras.

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A zebra's stripes, a seashell's spirals, a butterfly's wings: these are all examples of patterns in nature. The formation of patterns is a puzzle for mathematicians and biologists alike. How does the ...

Get creative with these styles. – It is time to get rid of those solid colors and bring out the patterns. Local 4 Style Editor Jon Jordan joined Tati Amare on “Live in the D” to give some tips on how ...

Zebras are known for their eye-catching patterns, but this polka-dotted foal recently photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve really stands out from the herd. As National Geographic ...

A pulsar's radiation is getting refracted by plasma in the magnetosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Historical records from ...

Prince Edwards Islands in the South Indian Ocean had a psychedelic show this month and it wasn’t at a concert stadium, it was in the sky. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ...

Stripes, curved fibres, dot arrays and some exotic stripe-dot hybrids on the surface of a frozen liquid metal. (Courtesy: K Kalantar-Zadeh) Highly ordered nanopatterns spontaneously form on the ...