The honeycomb-like patterns of clouds often seen over the open ocean are known to shift, with patches of sky alternately becoming clear or cloud-covered. Scientists now think they know what drives ...

It may look like a close-up snap of a honeycomb, but these pictures are ... Scientists say the pattern in the new images is formed over many years as the near-surface ice contracts and expands ...

If the conditions are just right, some of the electrons inside a material will arrange themselves into a tidy honeycomb pattern — like a solid within a solid. Physicists have now directly imaged ...

Here’s how it works. The mesmerizing honeycomb patterns found in salt deserts such as Badwater Basin in California's Death Valley and Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia have perplexed tourists and ...

With the basic equations of open-cell cloud formation in hand, the researchers next want to study how they become "closed" cells, an inverse pattern in which the honeycomb shape is produced by ...