Chinese scientists identify ‘fairy circles’ in northern China’s drylands for the first time and propose how they form

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Chinese scientists have recently identified fairy circles, unusual ring-shaped patterns with sparse vegetation or bare in centers, for the first time in northern China's arid regions and used phase transition theory from statistical physics to explain how the circles may have formed in these drylands, the Global Times learned from the research group on Sunday.

Fairy circles photographed by the research team near Alxa Left Banner, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: Courtesy of Yu Kailiang

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