How I Use Nature's Patterns to Optimize Garden Design Patterns help us find efficiencies—to see the path of least resistance—and learn from nature what works best.

The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many patterned substances and organisms as they form. Whether in plants and animals or ...

Other examples of nature’s fractals include clouds, rivers, coastlines and mountains. In 1999, my group used computer pattern analysis techniques to show that Pollock’s paintings are as ...

New research sheds light on how a certain kind of pattern in nature arises. Nature is full of patterns. Among them are tiling patterns, which mimic what you'd see on a tiled bathroom floor ...

Working with pattern blocks, tangrams, and 3D shapes are part of every elementary teacher’s geometry curriculum. But have you ever gone outdoors and observed nature’s design? The natural ...

What is macroevolution? Why is it important? How can macroevolutionary thinking help with interpreting patterns of primate evolution?

University of Arizona-led research sheds light on how a certain kind of pattern in nature arises.

It’s a simple pattern, but it appears to be a kind of built-in numbering system to the cosmos. Here are 15 astounding examples of phi in nature.

In nature, patterns of chemical interactions between two different substances are believed to govern the designs our eyes see—for example, a zebra’s stripes.

This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

Other examples of nature’s fractals include clouds, rivers, coastlines and mountains. In 1999, my group used computer pattern analysis techniques to show that Pollock’s paintings are as ...