Climate science, for all its remarkable progress, still has some very unnerving blank spots. The planet is behaving in ways ...

In dryland ecosystems, increased environmental stress often triggers a change from a uniform vegetation cover to patchy ...

National Harbor, Md. — Looking at face patterns in photos of more than 11,000 kinds of ants struck entomologist Clint Penick as a fine pandemic-lockdown project for his students. From that socially ...

Physicists show how patterns can emerge from chaos in turbulent fluids. The turbulent motion of a tumbling river or the outflow from a jet engine is chaotic: that is, it contains no obvious pattern.

Columbia Engineering scientists have developed a machine learning system that can use the pattern produced by nanocrystals to estimate the material’s atomic structure, according to a recent study ...