For many homeowners, pairing patterns is scary because it can turn into a design nightmare in seconds. Here's how designers make them work.

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Close your eyes—now picture yourself in the warm summer sun in Southern Italy. The sea is glittering and you can smell the refreshing, salty breeze. Sitting in your lounge chair, you’re wrapped in a ...

Researchers are trying to understand how networks of genes work together to create specific patterns like stripes. They have gone beyond studying individual networks and have created computational and ...

Rudyard Kipling playfully wrote that zebras stripes were due to "the slippery-slidy shadows of the trees" falling on its body but are scientists getting closer to the truth? In February 2019, at a ...

Researchers took a deep dive into embryonic development to tease out the source of the tabby pattern in cats. By James Gorman Folklore is full of stories about the coat patterns of cats: How the tiger ...

Of the nearly 60 million pet cats in the United States, one of the most common is the classic tabby—a coat pattern that features stripes, dots, and swirls and what looks like an M imprinted on the cat ...