Certain animal species, such as the ornate boxfish, have detailed markings. How do these intricate patterns materialize? A team of engineers may have an answer.

New experiments confirm that complex patterns in plants emerge from a model proposed by mathematician Alan Turing.

Chris Konow researches the impact of growth on Turing patterns in the Epstein Lab. Turing patterns are named after the British mathematician Alan Turing, who proposed a mechanism for how ...

The mechanism behind leopard spots and zebra stripes also appears to explain the patterned growth of a bismuth crystal, extending Alan Turing’s 1952 idea to the atomic scale.

Turing proposed that all the patterns we observe in nature, like the petals on flowers or a zebra’s stripes, come down to unique chemical interactions between molecules that are moving through space.