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 ...

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Mother Nature is the ultimate designer. After all, since life first emerged on Earth, she’s had 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D to get it right. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning ...

Fly over endless sunflower fields, where golden blooms stretch as far as the eye can see under the warm embrace of the sun. This stunning drone footage captures the mesmerizing patterns of nature, as ...

By harnessing electron-beam patterning to control the swelling and contraction of a soft polymer, researchers created a ...