Over time, humans have drawn inspiration form animals. We marvel at what they can do and wonder how they do things. Frome birds flying to ...

The Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, resembles the eerie eye of Sauron from *The Lord of ...

Have you ever heard of a nudibranch? They're colorful mollusks with no shells and you can see them at the Bailey-Matthews ...

Ah, summer—the perfect time to lean into bright, bold colours, breezy fabrics, and perhaps even a slightly higher hemline...

"I'm grateful for whatever reason the snail did not sting me and to have this second chance," Beckylee Rawls told Newsweek ...

Beachgoers are being advised to steer clear of a particular type of shell known as the cone snail, which may look harmless ...

A hidden structure at the farthest reaches of our solar system is challenging long-held theories. Using advanced simulations, a NASA supercomputer has revealed that the Oort Cloud, a vast shell of ...

While the outer Oort Cloud might still be spherical, the inner part appears to twist in a spiral pattern, suggesting our solar system is more dynamically connected to the galaxy than once thought.

Conch shells are a blend of biology, artistry and acoustics. These 3D images, acquired using the Xradia's Versa 620 X-ray microscope, reveal Fibonacci spiral patterns inside the shell that create a ...

Mirroring the Fibonacci number sequence (made famous in The Da Vinci Code), their optical rotatum propagates in a logarithmic spiral that is seen in the shell of a nautilus, the seeds of a sunflower, ...

Patterns exist all around the world, creating unforgettable designs exhibited by organisms and acts of nature. Some of these designs even share surprising connections, like a spiral shape seen in both ...

"That was one of the unexpected highlights of this research," said first author Ahmed Dorrah, a former research associate in Capasso's lab, now an assistant professor at Eindhoven University of ...