Animal survival depends on effective attack and defense strategies, yet how these behaviors arise remains unclear. Addressing ...

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

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Innovation doesn’t always mean creating something entirely new. Some of the most remarkable breakthroughs come from observing ...

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their habitats were officially declared extinct on the International Union for ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments. These patterns appear so consistently that […] ...

Recent policy reversals by the Federal Government - from the reviewed presidential pardon to the swift withdrawal of the ...

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

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 ...