While no one knows for sure a hedge maze ever stood in the gardens behind the Governor’s Palace more than 200 years ago, it’s become a staple of the Historic Area. Since the Colonial Williamsburg ...

From the embryonic stages to late life, cells often make incredible journeys, sometimes even traversing an entire organism. They reach their destination by chemotaxis, following signals that lead them ...

Forget your garden hedge maze. Ancient builders created labyrinths so epic that they spawned entire myths, like the Minotaur’s crib. We’ve uncovered the real-world sites that proved these legendary ...

The world’s largest garden maze is confounding visitors with twists and turns that lead to rose bushes and sculptures. Covering two acres, with 5 kilometers (3 miles) of hedges, the North Wales maze’s ...

Gardeners have had their work cut out after spending 520 hours trimming one of the world's biggest hedge mazes. The team of 13 have been working eight hours a day for five days to tackle the enormous ...

The resonance is deep and ancient: mystery that goes back before Homer, to legends of a Greek hero who threaded his way through the original Labyrinth to slay a mighty monster. Boisterous children ...

D. discoideum solving a representation of the maze from Hampton Court Palace. (Bottom) Cells sensing a shortcut using the self-generated gradient and selecting a new minimal route. Cells enter from ...

“If you took the maze and put it in a straight line it could be 8 to 10 miles,” explains Laura Ingalls of Marini Farm as she leads me into the Ipswich farm’s corn maze on a recent sunny day. I had ...