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New experiments confirm that complex patterns in plants emerge from a model proposed by mathematician Alan Turing.

Researchers are racing to try to understand how much humans are exposed and what levels are toxic.

Repeated structures in the ghost catfish’s muscles separate white light that passes through their bodies into different wavelengths.

After half a century, mathematicians succeed in finding an ‘einstein,’ a shape that forms a tiled pattern that never repeats.

Did the virus that causes COVID-19 come from animals or a lab? Evidence hints at animals. Either way, we should be prepping for the next pandemic.

The data reveal some unexpected patterns, though it’s too early to know how octopus brains control the animals’ behavior, a new study finds.

The universe tells us slowly rotating black holes are stable. A nearly 1,000-page proof confirms it.

Many historians suspect Beethoven died from liver failure. A new analysis shows he had a heightened genetic risk for liver disease, researchers say.

As humans prepare to live in space someday, ethics should be as much of guide as science and technology, an astrophysicist argues in a new book.

Drunk mice injected with the hormone FGF21 woke up and regained their balance faster than inebriated mice that did not receive the shot.