The hexagonal patterns only occur on the top and sides of the snake—the skin on the belly has scales but no patterns. The team used a variety of techniques to study the development of the scales ...

No one rule captures the full sweep of life’s ingenuity, yet SAI offers a fresh lens, suggesting that aging and fragility are ...

Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive. Now engineers at CU ...

Designers have been playing with six-side patterns or gemstones ... with a 3.84-carat sea-blue indicolite tourmaline (price on application). To emphasize the stone’s hexagonal shape, each ...