In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to overlook the subtle cues around us. Yet, nature, in its infinite wisdom, often tries to communicate with us, signaling impending shifts long before they manifest ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

There are moments when natural scenes feel unsettling because they look designed rather than formed. Hexagonal rock columns, evenly spaced sand ripples, perfectly repeating cloud grids, and ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

Jon McCormack’s camera is drawn to the place where life and its constraints – gravity, fluid dynamics, climate, light and time – meet and are "in conversation" with each other. "Life then responds ...

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