Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...

At first sight, the standard Ising model seems rather detached from wetting — the process by which a liquid makes contact with a surface. If, however, you think of the Ising spins on a 2D lattice as ...

Creamy flow: a pint glass of Guinness showing the texture of bubbles. (Courtesy: University of Osaka) Pouring a proper pint of Guinness beer takes practice. It should be done in two stages to allow ...

Sudden, radical transformations of substances known to humanity for eons, like water freezing and soup steaming over a fire, remained mysterious until well into the 20th century. Scientists observed ...