A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

A team of physicists at UCLA has uncovered a strange and unexpected phenomenon—spiral patterns forming spontaneously on solid ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

Mosaic patterns and images were made with different materials such as coloured stones, ceramics, stained glass, shells, beads and many more. Mosaics can be made with different techniques, but in the ...