Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math. At first glance, the strange ratcheted pattern, ...

Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of Namibia in southwestern Africa, people are captivated by the regular patterns of plant growth that blanket desert and ...

Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers have found a similar pattern in two apparently unrelated systems -- skin cells and fairy circles in ...

As we delve into the phenomenon, we explore recent occurrences, delve into the mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch, and examine the myriad theories surrounding these enigmatic and complex designs.

The artists behind increasingly elaborate crop-circle patterns are most likely skilled in math, necessary to plot epic designs, and technologically savvy enough to employ tools like microwave ...

Desert plants naturally group in patterns that Alan Turing predicted in 1952. Polymath dynamo Turing is most famous for the Turing machine. Plants in Turing patterns are able to retain water and ...

Intricate patterns carved in fields across England in the 1980s were a viral phenomenon long before the internet fed us such prankster curiosities daily. By Peter Wilson CONHOLT, England — Standing ...

An episode of the History Channel's UFO conspiracy theory show "Ancient Aliens" raises a question: A crop circle in England has the same pattern as one etched on a rock found next to the legendary ...

'Fairy circles' and another part of the pattern story Large-scale vegetation patterns, however, are not always the whole story. A different biological process predominates in the spaces between insect ...