Across cities and suburbs, a curious pattern keeps turning up in aerial photos and field surveys alike: trees that stand ...

Have you ever noticed hurricane hunters’ flight patterns shown by meteorologists on TV look like random, odd shapes? Those flight patterns may look like boxes or stars, but they serve specific ...

Image via Getty Images No, that's not a weather pattern. It's a flock of bird moving in a strange way. In Wyoming, residents were perplexed when birds seemed to move in some sort of bird tornado. "I ...

Scientists normally explain the spectacular diversity of animal patterns by pointing to genetics. But a study in Nature suggests that, at least for crocodile heads, different forces might be at play.

The universe may be flat, but could still be shaped like a doughnut, weird patterns in leftover light from the Big Bang suggest. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Rotated Figure 4 pattern is as it sounds: the Figure 4 pattern turned on side. "The goal with every flight is to gather data all around the center of the storm, and those patterns allow us to ...

Many animals get their external marking—like, feathers, hair or scales-from genetics. But it turns out, the crocodile gets its head patterns differently. Scientists normally explain the spectacular ...