For you and me, an apple is just an apple, but for Tomoko Sato, it's a blank canvas ready to be filled with delicate art.

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...

There is a scene in the animated blockbuster "Finding Nemo" when a school of fish makes a rapid string of complicated patterns—an arrow, a portrait of young Nemo and other intricate designs. While the ...

NEW YORK -- Marquetry furniture, with its decorated surfaces, was reserved for the high and mighty in Europe, from the Renaissance to the 18th century. But in the United States in the 19th century, ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature ...

It is a cross between Etch A Sketch and textile design, maybe with a dash of pop art for good measure. In a sense, it's a landscape painting on an enormous canvas — with one major exception. "You only ...

New research by University of Alberta scientists shows that one movement started by a single individual ripples through the entire group of animals and helps them form intricate and complicated ...

In the skies high above, a solitary snowflake is forming. Seeded by a speck of debris—dust, salt, a bacterium carried aloft—the tiny, delicate crystal grows and grows, with ever-more water depositing ...