The coastline paradox presents a fascinating challenge to our understanding of geography. It reveals a striking truth: there is no consistent way to measure the length of a country's coastline. The ...

In a recent impulsive crafting moment, I decided I needed some dried flowers. I had read that you could speed-dry them in the ...

In nature, fractal patterns aren’t just aesthetically pleasing, they’re also often related to function. For example, branching enables trees to transport fluid, harvest light and maintain ...

In real trees in nature, that number is usually somewhere between 1.5 and 3, depending on the tree. But in art, it’s all up to the artist and how they depicted their trees.

A quantum version of a fractal pattern, known as "Hofstadter's butterfly," has long been predicted, but the new study marks the first time it has been directly observed experimentally in a real ...

Fractals are self-repeating patterns that occur on different length scales and can be seen in nature in a variety of settings, including snowflakes, ferns, and coastlines.

Nature is not so disorderly after all. Fractals, or repeating patterns, can be found in the tiniest ice crystal to pinecones and aspen leaves. The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, invites ...

In nature, bubbles that occur when ocean waves break or where raindrops have fallen create a self-similar pattern with thin films of liquid separating various-sized gas pockets.

Fractals are a fascinating type of pattern for mathematics nerds, with their repeating, artificial-looking structures. Now, scientists have discovered the first known fractal protein – and it ...

Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, macroscopic scales, like in romanesco broccoli or fern plants, but until now they have never been identified at the molecular scale.