In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

The patterns of interest are leucine-aspartic acid motifs. These are short amino acid sequences found within some proteins designed to connect them to the cellular molecules which control cell ...