Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

Material behaviors depend on many things including not just the composition of the material but also the arrangement of its molecular parts. For the first time, researchers have found a way to coax ...

In this paper we study a new model for patterns in two dimensions, inspired by diblock copolymer melts with a dominant phase. The model is simple enough to be amenable not only to numerics but also to ...

Around the globe, honeycomb-like patterns form in salt deserts, for example in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley in California or in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. These salt structures attract tens ...

Ancient Mars had seasonal weather similar to Earth’s, with alternating wet and dry seasons, according to mud patterns discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover. These seasonal cycles may have helped form ...