During a friend's watch party for the 2024 Summer Olympics, my gaze diverted momentarily from the sports spectacle to the wood console the TV stood on. I wasn't admiring the handiwork; rather I ...

Growing up in the Australian Outback, where he first picked up a camera as a teenager to document his surroundings in the bush, Jon McCormack developed a keen eye for the beauty and subtleties of ...

We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape to mechanical wear. Most of us have been stung by a bee, bitten by an ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

Abstract: This paper presents a scoping review of immersive virtual nature experiences delivered via head-mounted displays (HMDs) and their role in promoting well-being, psychological restoration, ...

Biophilic design has received growing attention as hospitals increasingly seek evidence-based strategies to support patient recovery, psychological comfort, and staff well-being. This rapid review ...

From alpha brain waves to amygdala activity, scientists map how forests, wetlands, and even immersive virtual nature can recalibrate the brain, revealing why stepping outside may be one of the most ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Credit: René Ramos/Lifehacker Composite/Adobe Stock In the cold light of the ledger, virtual reality looks like shambling corpse, too dumb to know ...

The metaverse—an immersive, persistent and networked virtual environment first conceptualized in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992)—integrates Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and ...

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

We can't protect what we don't understand. From decoding wolf howls to making sense of millions of citizen-science sightings, we explore the tools helping researchers understand the wild in new ways.

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...