Jon McCormack’s photography is often framed to make you look closer, and then closer again. The Australian-born conservation ...

Nature rarely repeats itself exactly, yet somehow the same shapes, textures, and structures continue appearing everywhere, ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

Nights at the Missouri Botanical Garden are about to get a whole lot brighter. Patterns in Nature: The Art of HYBYCOZO will bring 21 interactive installations by artists Serge Beaulieu and Yelena ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A zebra’s ...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the core model, a fundamental pattern for understanding how nature operates.