Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic ...

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

Scientists have been trying for decades to crack the code of how different animal patterns emerge from a mass of developing ...

A new study published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience looks at the connection between Atlantic Ocean currents and our planet’s climate history. Led by researchers at Columbia University's ...

Research published last month in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Physics tracks the Yangtze River during the intense rainy season called the mei-yu. The mei-yu, also called the "Plum Rain", is ...

Environment is not the only factor in shaping regulatory patterns -- and it might not even be the primary factor, according to a new Rice University study that looks at how cells' protein networks ...

As a young lad at Snook Haven on the Myakka River, I can remember years when there would be occasional summer-like days beyond mid-October. Rarely were there full weeks of 90-degree days and nights ...