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When a four-part crop circle pattern roughly resembling a Mickey Mouse head appeared last week in a wheat field in eastern Washington state, farmers Greg and Cindy Geib were surprised — but not ...

Crop circles are seen by many to enchant a mystical landscape: here, a circle pattern from 2009, 200 feet across, in a Wiltshire wheat field. Rob Irving When Doug Bower and his co-conspirator Dave ...

The Namib desert is covered with regular patterns of bare circles whose origin is fiercely debated by researchers – but it now seems both leading explanations may be right. One camp claims the empty ...

Desert plants naturally group in patterns that Alan Turing predicted in 1952. Polymath dynamo Turing is most famous for the Turing machine. Plants in Turing patterns are able to retain water and ...