Vessels in a tree’s xylem transport water from the roots to the rest of the plant. Hardwood tree species tend to have large ...

The government is sure to give far more weight to Justice Michael Wigney’s judgment that it has no legal duty of care to protect Torres Strait Islanders from the ravages of climate change than to his ...

Take a tour through the magical world of natural fractals and discover the complex patterns of succulents, rivers, leaf veins, crystals, and more.

Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities Irrelevant red herrings lead to "catastrophic" failure of logical inference.

From pine cones to spiral galaxies, fascinating patterns of the Fibonacci sequence occur naturally in nature. Find out how this ancient sequence manifests in our world and beyond.

A recent study reveals that “odd viscosity,” a unique property where fluid particles spin uniformly, can cause regular patterns to emerge from the chaotic motion of turbulent fluids, such as those ...

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 new study shows that the mathematical basis of these patterns also governs how sperm tail moves. The findings, published today (September 27) in Nature Communications, reveal that flagella ...