At a time when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and people spend about 90 percent of their lives indoors, our relationship with the natural world has never been more distant or ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

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There are moments when natural scenes feel unsettling because they look designed rather than formed. Hexagonal rock columns, evenly spaced sand ripples, perfectly repeating cloud grids, and ...