Desert plants naturally group in patterns that Alan Turing predicted in 1952. Polymath dynamo Turing is most famous for the Turing machine. Plants in Turing patterns are able to retain water and ...

Perfect circles of stones cover the ground in parts of Alaska and the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen. Elsewhere in the far north, stones form other striking patterns on the ground: polygons, stripes ...

They look a little like crop circles and a little like artistic earthworks. Around the world, they have many names: in the Namib Desert of Africa, they’re called “fairy circles;” in Brazil they’re ...

The human eye is drawn to circular patterns in nature, from crop circles in the movie Signs to the ripples in a pond. But there's another awe-inspiring, naturally-occurring, circular pattern that ...

Crop circles have fascinated and perplexed people for decades, sparking debates and theories ranging from natural phenomena to extraterrestrial artistry. As new evidence and theories emerge, the ...

When a four-part crop circle pattern roughly resembling a Mickey Mouse head appeared last week in a wheat field in eastern Washington state, farmers Greg and Cindy Geib were surprised — but not ...