More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns ... its stripes, the cheetah its spots and more besides. Tuxedo cat with black fur and white ...

Recent research suggests that the monochrome pattern of stripes may disrupt the vision of biting insects like flies, making ...

Temperature has now been found to successfully predict striping patterns ... stripes. One possible explanation for why stripes are associated with temperature is that black and white stripes ...

From the peacock tail and the eyespots of a butterfly, to the evolving camouflage of the chameleon, nature loves patterns ... on understanding the black and white stripes presented on zebrafish ...

If the original embryos would have been differently coloured (for example, black and white), the chimaeric animal often has striped or patchy coat patterns, a mix of the two colours. Previously ...

The black-and-white contrast in the images corresponds to domains of opposite perpendicular magnetization. In order to emphasize details of the images, we sometimes colour white stripes yellow ...