Scientists who study monkeyflowers sometimes feel as though the plants are looking back at them. The blooms are said to resemble the faces of playful monkeys—hence the name—complete with a speckled ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Sometimes the deepest truths are revealed in the silliest photos. Here are 11 perfectly “silly” photos from this year’s Nature’s Best Photography contest. Every year, Nature’s Best Photography ...

It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Micah Parsons made his way to AT&T Stadium on Friday as the Dallas Cowboys hosted the Atlanta Falcons in the 2025 preseason finale. The disgruntled pass rusher has skipped training camp amid a ...

Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a formal notice attributing a series of hostile cyber attacks using a variety of malware dubbed Authentic Antics to Russian-state operated ...

Rock star antics will always be a thing, especially on stage. What is rock music if not an outlet for being wild and outside of the norm? That being said, I can’t imagine some of the rock star antics ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...