Texture is a crucial visual and sensory attribute in understanding the world. The complexity of imaging environments, variations in acquisition angles and distances, and differences in resolution make ...

The realm of metamaterial design has been dominated by the periodic structure concept 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. However, there is an intriguing potential for discovering unusual material behavior outside the ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...

A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This "self-similarity" can be seen throughout nature, for example in a ...

Now, in a new study, Milinkovitch and his team reported that the polygonal head scales form due to the growth and compression of skin, which creates a self-organizing pattern of folds. 2 These ...

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