Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The ...

Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of Namibia in southwestern Africa, people are captivated by the regular patterns of plant growth that blanket desert and ...

Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers have found a similar pattern in two apparently unrelated systems -- skin cells and fairy circles in ...

(CNN) — Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The phenomenon’s mysterious origins have intrigued scientists for ...