Chinese ice-ray lattice, or "binglie" as it is called in Chinese, is an intricate pattern that looks like cracked ice and is a common decorative element used in traditional Chinese window designs.

However, with climate change steadily increasing how is it changing sharks' and rays' patterns? The answer may just surprise you. Shutterstock Image When we hear the words climate change we ...

"We had a hunch that Blu-ray discs might work for improving solar cells, and, to our delight, we found the existing patterns are already very good," said Associate Professor Jiaxing Huang ...

Now, Huang and his colleagues have found that Blu-ray discs may help create such patterns far more inexpensively. Blu-ray discs can hold more data than CDs or DVDs can. They encode data using ...

Our technique shows that complex patterns ... remarkable that x-rays brighter than a million suns can shed new light on our understanding of the processes that have locked elements in place ...

Yet one pattern commonly found around craters has remained a puzzle. Sometimes, these craters contain radial rays of debris fanned out around the impact zone. In the lab, scientists have tried to ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One ...