Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic ...

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

New research published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers highlights the cyclic patterns of geologic activity on Earth. Scientists from New York University report findings from an analysis of major ...

Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...

We examined patterns of spatial heterogeneity in the Spring River basin fish community along with environmental correlates to assess the relative importance of geographic distances and habitat ...

How can climate change influence volcanic activity? This is what a recent study presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between ...

Scientists have been trying for decades to crack the code of how different animal patterns emerge from a mass of developing ...