Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

If the icy layer was any thinner, then the ring patterns wouldn’t have formed, study author Shigeru Wakita of MIT says. The data shows a hard ice shell on the surface of Europa (lithosphere ...

Cell stress from crowding leads to slower growth and circular patterns. 5mo. L ike so many organisms on the planet, when cells experience mosh-pit-level crowding, they may just become stressed.

In Southern California, naturalists have found what look like two distinct species scrabbling across the ground. One is marked with strong, dark blotches in a cryptic pattern that camouflages it well.

Seagrasses play a vital role in the coastal ecosystem, acting as carbon sinks. In certain conditions, they form interesting patterns that have not been fully explained. For example, circular bands of ...

More than half of the European Union countries are small open economies, and the smooth circular transformation of the entire EU significantly depends on these countries as well. According to the ...

Yet unlike most other life forms, cells subject to physical stress from crowding by neighbors can find some relief by dramatically slowing their own growth - and in doing so form an eye-catching ...