Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

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The big thinkers at Aperture explain the Golden Ratio and why it appears throughout nature and art. Zelensky makes major concession to end Ukraine war Ashlee Buzzard arrested in murder of daughter ...

During the 'dripfest' experiment adults and children were asked to recreate a painting in Pollock’s style. Credit: Richard Taylor. Different artists create different art, a new study has confirmed.

For a long time, the architectural world seemed convinced that the only way to make a building feel healthy was to cover it in actual plants. The star of healthy architecture was the living building.

We can't protect what we don't understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

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There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers have advanced their breakthrough theory – and it could help ...