A pattern as familiar as hair may hold clues to one of biology’s deeper mysteries. The way hair follicles arrange themselves ...

Jim Crutchfield, a pioneer in chaos and complexity theory, wants to understand where patterns and organization come from, how nature makes them, and how we can discover new ones. His modest goal is to ...

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Most of us are vaguely familiar with the brittle star -- the slender, five-armed cousin of the starfish. But perhaps you were not aware of how amazingly ubiquitous they are throughout all the oceans ...