A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong left a sample out by mistake. It was a small chip made of germanium, topped with thin layers ...

Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the ... including Archimedean spirals, logarithmic spirals, lotus flower shapes, radially symmetric patterns and more. The discovery, published ...

Beautiful spiral patterns had been etched into the ... including Archimedean spirals, logarithmic spirals, lotus flower shapes, radially symmetric patterns and more. The discovery, published ...