Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer ... methods to study chemical pattern formation since the 1950s. Studying these complex systems will help scientists understand ...

By the same token, a physicist studying the dimensions of the Grand Canyon rim on Google Earth was perplexed by the discovery of mysterious polka-dot patterns on the North rim of the monumental ...