More than 70 years ago, mathematician Alan Turing proposed a mechanism that explained how patterns could emerge from bland uniformity. Scientists are still using his model—and adding new twists ...

Alan Turing, a renowned mathematician who invented modern computing, proposed more than 70 years ago that animals got their patterns through the production of chemical agents that would diffuse ...

Just like adaptive skin patterns in animals, when Turing patterns change—say from hexagons to stripes—this indicates underlying differences in chemical concentrations inside or outside the body.

Turing predicted that by the early 2000s, a programmed computer would be able to “play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of ...

But proving that Turing’s model explains patterns in the real world has been challenging (SN: 10/21/15).It wasn’t clear whether Turing’s idea is really behind natural distributions of ...

According to a recent study in Scientific Reports, Turing patterns can be used to develop a new method for designing and producing fabric-based soft pneumatic actuators (FSPAs).

Alan Turing, a renowned mathematician who invented modern computing, proposed more than 70 years ago that animals got their patterns through the production of chemical agents that would diffuse ...

Turing hypothesized that an animal's pattern was not formed by complex genetics, rather, they formed through diffusion reactions. When testing the simulation, ...