Plant communities worldwide exhibit distinct patterns of species richness and evolutionary history that reflect both contemporary environmental gradients and deep-time processes. Latitudinal and ...

Dietary patterns encompass the combination and frequency of foods and beverages consumed, ranging from traditional plant-based and Mediterranean approaches to Western, high-protein and Paleolithic ...

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Jon McCormack's photography is often framed to make you look closer, and then closer again. The Australian-born conservation and natural history photographer grew up surrounded by the stark landscapes ...

Nature has always whispered warnings to those who know how to listen. Long before sophisticated weather satellites and seismic monitoring networks existed, indigenous peoples and farmers relied on ...

Jon McCormack’s camera is drawn to the place where life and its constraints – gravity, fluid dynamics, climate, light and time – meet and are "in conversation" with each other. "Life then responds ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Nature is alive with a special type of pattern called fractals. From the smallest ice crystal to the vastness of the galaxy, fractals are the building blocks of the natural world.

Honolulu artist Taiji Terasaki’s “Hawaiian Landscapes: Earth Within Us” opens June 16 at American Savings Bank, running ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

At a time when more than half the world’s population lives in cities and people spend about 90 percent of their lives indoors, our relationship with the natural world has never been more distant or ...

A figure shows how trained participants began to gaze mainly at the one relevant side of each image. “They were unconsciously focusing their attention on the part of the image that was actually ...