Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The phenomenon’s mysterious origins have intrigued scientists for decades — ...

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(CNN) — Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The phenomenon’s mysterious origins have intrigued scientists for ...

The human eye is drawn to circular patterns in nature, from crop circles in the movie Signs to the ripples in a pond. But there's another awe-inspiring, naturally-occurring, circular pattern that ...

MYSTERIOUS crop circles appeared in rural Essex on the eve of the solar eclipse. The otherworldly etchings have sent UFO hunters in a frenzy but what are crop circles? We reveal all… Crop circles are ...

Unusual bare circles in the grasslands of Australia and the Namib Desert called "fairy circles" aren't the work of termites, new research suggests. Termites sometimes nest within fairy circles, study ...

We prove existence and uniqueness results for patterns of circles with prescribed intersection angles on constant curvature surfaces. Our method is based on two new functionals--one for the Euclidean ...

They look a little like crop circles and a little like artistic earthworks. Around the world, they have many names: in the Namib Desert of Africa, they’re called “fairy circles;” in Brazil they’re ...