A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid surfaces. The discovery, which began with a simple mistake in the lab, is ...

A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

Sacred geometry appears all throughout nature. The arrangement of leaves on a stem, the spiral patterns of pinecones, the ...

The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 ...

The galaxy's rotation curve, an important characteristic of spiral galaxies, shows a pattern typical of flat ... published on March 17 in the journal Nature Astronomy. Join our Space Forums ...

Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the germanium ... is unusual in laboratory experiments but common in nature. Enzymes catalyze growth in nature, which deforms cells and tissue.

Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the germanium ... is unusual in laboratory experiments but common in nature. Enzymes catalyze growth in nature, which deforms cells and tissue.

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong left a sample out by mistake. It was a small chip made of germanium, topped with thin layers ...

THE 300 FOOT PATH IS IN THE SHAPE OF A SPIRAL TO REFLECT PATTERNS FOUND IN NATURE AND AT ITS HEART, A DRAIN. THE PLANTS ACT AS A NET TO SLOW RAINFALL THAT FLOWS INTO A NEARBY CREEK. ONE OF THE ...