A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human ...

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according ...

From Death Valley to Chile to Iran, similarly sized polygons of salt form in playas all over the world — and subterranean fluid flows might be the key to solving the long-standing puzzle of why.

Jay Bonner’s new book on Islamic geometric patterns is as dense and thick (595 pages) as the thorniest of textbooks, but the hundreds of illustrations and the immersion in this topic are simply ...

This was a cross-sectional study of the hypertensive subgroup of a diabetic cohort enrolled consecutively from July 1994 to June 1996. The inclusion and diagnostic criteria and the baseline procedures ...