On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation of space vehicles, but now there's a new family of origami shapes that could make them ...

Flowers have lots of different patterns on their surfaces that help to guide bees and other pollinators towards the flower’s nectar, speeding up pollination. These patterns include visual signals like ...

Bees may find that the edge of petals smells different to the centre of the flower (Victoria Jones/PA) Credit: PA Wire/PA Images Bumblebees can identify different flowers by the invisible patterns of ...