A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Mammalian lungs are branched networks containing thousands to millions of airways arrayed in intricate patterns that are crucial for respiration. How such trees are generated during development, and ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Shade-induced changes in the branching pattern of clonal plants can lead to conspicuous modifications of their growth form and architecture. It has been hypothesized that reduced branching in shade ...

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Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

Summary Plants exhibit dependences between shoot growth and branching that generate highly structured patterns. The characterization of the patterning mechanism is still an open issue because of the ...

A SPOOKY forest, stripped of life by a natural disaster? Not exactly. Spanish photographer Fran Rubia snapped this scene on a trip to Iceland. He set out to capture the colossal ice walls of the ...