When a fruit fly gets dust on its body, it launches into a precise cleaning routine, sweeping and rubbing its legs in rhythmic strokes that look almost mechanical. Scientists have long assumed that ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Using pseudo-random speckle patterns is an efficient way to image targets, but most approaches require bulky, expensive, complex and slow machinery. To apply this ...

The ground beneath your feet may be carrying on a kind of conversation. Research into fungal electrical signaling has found that underground networks of fungi generate patterns bearing a striking ...

The turbulent motion of a tumbling river or the outflow from a jet engine is chaotic: that is, it contains no obvious pattern. But according to a new study, regular patterns can emerge from the ...