Tooth-like scales of sharks and chicken feathers are created by the same process and explained by a theory from the legendary code-breaker Alan Turing. His reaction-diffusion theory is widely accepted ...

From spotty leopards to stripy zebras, nature has no shortage of distinct patterns on animals and plants. Now, the age-old question of how these patterns developed may have finally been solved.

More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists—to ...

The strikingly patterned ornate boxfish has no lack of detail when it comes to its hexagonal spots and keen stripes — the intricate markings are so sharp-edged in the species that it had engineers at ...

How did animals get their spots and stripes? New research upgrades Alan Turing’s theory on the formation of skin patterns. When Ben Alessio visited the Birch Aquarium in San Diego, he found an ...

MYSTERIOUS circles in the desert can be explained with a 70 year old theory from Alan Turing, according to a new study. A theory called the Turing pattern, created by the famous English mathematician, ...

For many decades now, scientists and biologists have been trying to understand how the mesmerising patterns in animal coats emerge from a group of underdeveloped cells. The British mathematician Alan ...

Mathematicians from the University of Sheffield are helping school children across the UK crack the code using Alan Turing’s theory of biology, to celebrate the new £50 note. Leading mathematicians ...

Alan Turing – code-breaker, mathematician and computer pioneer - was born 100 years ago this Saturday. In the first of a series of reports, David Henry talks to Professor Bernard Richards, who was ...