Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

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 ...

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Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies? Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies? Is ...

Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive ...

Two selections of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.) with contrasting branching patterns were grown at three plant densities at two times of the year. The numbers of growing vegetative ...