A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, down a sand dune and across a plain of dried mud, bound to the laws of geology and sediments. The stripes of the ...

Just as many of us are struck by the beauty of symmetrical patterns in nature and art, Chen-Ning Yang had a deep feeling for ...

Symmetry abounds in nature, often in its most beautiful forms. A perfect snowflake, a blooming sunflower, a light-harvesting complex from a bacterium—they all exhibit striking symmetry, crafted by ...

Scientists have discovered a new factor – a noggin-like gene – that plays a key role in controlling the pathway responsible for dorsoventral symmetry in animal phylogeny. A team from the Department of ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1598, Pattern perception and computational complexity (19 July 2012), pp. 2007-2022 (16 pages) Formal language theory has been extended ...