Researchers have found an answer to a centuries-old floral mystery, using a mathematical model to explain how striped tulips ...

The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic animal patterns thanks to differential ...

Researchers have found an answer to a centuries-old floral mystery, using a mathematical model to explain how striped tulips ...

The team decided to look at the cuttlefish patterns from ... downward movement of the stripes is a unique camouflage strategy that has not been described before in nature. The team also took ...

How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...

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 ...