This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp ...

For camouflaged prey, enhanced conspicuousness due to bilaterally symmetrical coloration increases predation risk. The ubiquity of symmetrical body patterns in nature is therefore paradoxical, perhaps ...

New gene-editing technique now makes it easier to figure out what a gene does by deleting it and seeing what happens New York: Only nature can paint the gorgeous colours and patterns on a butterfly’s ...