The realm of metamaterial design has been dominated by the periodic structure concept 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. However, there is an intriguing potential for discovering unusual material behavior outside the ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...

Now, in a new study, Milinkovitch and his team reported that the polygonal head scales form due to the growth and compression of skin, which creates a self-organizing pattern of folds. 2 These ...

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