His first book, published in 1999 (The Self-Made Tapestry), and a trilogy, published in 2009 (Nature’s Patterns: Shapes, Flow, Branches), explore the subject of natural patterns, but neither has ...

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 ...

One of the simplest and most beautiful naturally occurring patterns can be observed when light is shined through a pair of slightly misaligned periodic structures. This phenomenon, known as the ...

Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does Philip Ball. Univ. of Chicago, $35 (288p) ISBN 978-0-226-33242-0 ...

How do habitat loss and fragmentation affect species and ecosystems? Spatial ecology investigates the immense variety of spatial patterns in nature and their ecological consequences.

Scientists discovered three minerals that had previously never been found naturally occurring on Earth.

Using a naturally occurring process, laboratories can harness the existing molecule-building capacities of bacteria to generate vast libraries of potentially therapeutic DNA-protein hybrid molecules.