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Weird grass circles in desert...

Speaking of circles, desert plants naturally group in weird-looking patterns called fairy circles. See above? Weird right?

It wasn’t really known why until recently, and it turns out Alan Turing predicted the kind of phenomenon back in 1952. 

It’s not that Alan Turing was kicking about in the desert, as such. 

What he predicted were Turing patterns, sometimes known as Turing dynamics or…