Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern. Everyone loves zebras.

Historical records from around the world describe a bright star appearing in the sky in the year 1054. Today, astronomers are confident that what our ancestors were seeing was, in truth, a star that ...

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula. A theoretical ...

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Stripes, curved fibres, dot arrays and some exotic stripe-dot hybrids on the surface of a frozen liquid metal. (Courtesy: K Kalantar-Zadeh) Highly ordered nanopatterns spontaneously form on the ...