A pattern in nature is any regularly repeated arrangement of shapes or colors. Some of the most striking examples include ... creating cracks in the top layer. As the lava cooled, the cracks ...

A fascinating class of patterns, often encountered in nature as meandering cracks on rocks, dried-out fields and tectonic plates, is produced by the fracture of solids 1. Here we describe the ...

What they discovered is that the skin “cracks” to improve their quality of life, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers at the University of ...

Like a snowflake, these patterns are unique — but up to a point. It turns out that the number of cracks created by a projectile holds some important clues about the nature of the impact.

indicating that the red planet may have once seen seasonal weather patterns or even flash floods. The research was published today in Nature. "These exciting observations of mature mud cracks are ...

Still, its presence was constant and undeniable, and Patterns in Nature (University of Chicago Press) packs the chaotic beauty of the nature world into an explainable boxes no less wondrous ...