The honeycomb patterns which are often found in salt deserts in Death Valley, US, and Bolivia, among other places, look like something from another world. Researchers can now explain the origin of the ...

Around the globe, honeycomb-like patterns form in salt deserts, for example in the Badwater Basin of Death Valley in California or in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. These salt structures attract tens ...

Like shifting sand dunes, some clouds disappear in one place and reappear in another. New research shows why: Air movement due to rain forms patterns in low clouds that remain cohesive structures even ...