Back in 1952, Turing suggested that natural biological patterns like stripes or spots could form in the presence of two molecules: a slow-moving activator and a fast-moving inhibitor. The activator ...

For the work that led to his 1952 paper, Turing wanted to understand the underlying mechanism that produces natural patterns ... in the 1970s that successfully reproduced patterns like spots and ...

Southern Poland’s farmlands don’t conform to the rigid grids seen elsewhere. Instead, they form a mesmerizing patchwork of ...

If a zebra zigs, will its stripes ... across natural backgrounds. The easy-to-catch critters disappear; the evasive ones reproduce. Eventually only the hardest-to-catch patterns remain.