In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic ...

Imperfections in animal patterns could inspire adaptive materials that shift color, shape, and function like nature itself.

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

(Other experts, such as Princeton University astrophysicist Robert Lupton, say that finding several such patterns in ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope ...

For the first time, an ultrasound probe with the capability of imaging complete organs in four dimensions has been developed ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the ...