Fairy Circles and Skin Cells (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Fairy Circles and Skin Cells

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Two apparently unrelated systems on vastly different scales -- fairy circles in the Namibian desert and microscopic skin cells -- appear to share a similar pattern, which is very, very unusual.

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