Biologists have long been fascinated by the amazing diversity of animal colour patterns. Despite much interest, the underlying evolutionary and developmental mechanisms contributing to their rich ...

Beauty in the living world amazes poets, philosophers and scientists alike. Nobel prize laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Director of the Department for Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Most horses today are treasured for their ability to run, work, or be ridden, but have lost their wild-type camouflage: pale hair with zebra-like dark stripes known as the Dun pattern. Now an ...

From decorative tiles to maximalist wallpaper, our latest lookbook explores bathrooms where striking patterned surfaces are paired with bold colours to make a statement. Offering an alternative to the ...

The colour of prehistoric animals is almost impossible to determine, because fossilisation does not preserve it. But under exceptional circumstances, colour patterns survive. In the Crato Formation in ...

Same gene causes very different adaptive colour traits in moths and tropical butterflies Cortex gene allowed peppered moths to blend in with industrial pollution It also causes variation in the bright ...

Scientists guided by small structures preserved in fossilized skin have deciphered the colour and camouflage pattern of a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed ...

Each strand of hair on my tabby cat has a series of colours along its length. How does each follicle produce a hair that changes colour as it grows? Tyler Jordan, a Canadian PhD student in the College ...

With the maximalist interior design trend continuing to be a favourite style on Instagram and Pinterest, the idea of more is better has been grabbed by so many homeowners and taken to the maximum.

The structure and arrangement of the colour particles contained within sections of film can be changed by applying an electric voltage BMW have revealed a “car of the future” that is totally ...