Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan have found a ...

A computer model successfully predicts desert vegetation patterns. The green grass grows. In arid regions, the green areas may not be uniform, as in this labyrinth pattern of grass growing in the ...

Across the dry deserts of southern Peru lies a landscape that seems at first completely ordinary. The ground is flat, pale and silent, stretching so far that the horizon looks blurred in the heat. For ...

This artist's conception illustrates the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026. NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes observed the object to learn more about its turbulent atmosphere. Brown ...

Mystery gridlines in the Chinese desert that were captured by Google Earth have spawned wild and worrying conspiracy theories. Labyrinth-like, the pictures depict apparently man-made structures that ...

Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers have found a similar pattern in two apparently unrelated systems -- skin cells and fairy circles in ...