Those white spots may actually help monarchs complete ... Hassanalian had studied the black-and-white patterns on migrating birds, and concluded that black coloration could affect temperature ...

These patterns can be very complicated ... worked out what would happen if a fish like a char that has ‘white-spots-on-black’ mated with a salmon or trout that has ‘black-spots-on-white’.

For quite some time, scientists had a working theory of why certain piebald (patchy black-and-white) mammals look the way they do. They assumed the coloring is a directed pattern that involves ...

by mixing two versions of the same type of Turing pattern together — call it Turing-squared. Computer models predict that a mashup of black spots on a white background plus white spots on black ...

Black and white thinking is a thought pattern that makes people think in ... Using this 'cognitive' technique helps you to spot what you are doing and challenge your false impressions.

The patterns also help researchers study genetics within a pod. The orca’s black-and-white bodies help them blend in with their surroundings and make them appear smaller. The darker markings shrink ...

And it's those spots that recently caught the attention ... in a science journal called PLOS One. They believe the pattern of black and white on the edge of a monarch's wing could potentially ...