Stripes are common in our lives. It’s a pretty basic pattern, and easy to take for granted. As an applied mathematician who studies how patterns form in nature, though, I am wowed by the striped ...

600 feet beneath the ocean's surface dwells one of nature's strangest animals: a fish that can absorb light like a black hole. Inverse is counting down the 20 stories that made us say 'wtf' in 2020.