The impact of nature's aesthetics is surprisingly powerful. In the 1980s, architects found that patients recovered more quickly from surgery when given hospital rooms with windows looking out on ...

Scenes from nature have stripes that tend to cancel each other out, so that when added together no stripes appear in the image, whereas urban environments tend to feature regular, repetitive patterns.

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

But beneath the veneer of 2016, human nature remains the same, and life often operates on principles similar to those from a half-century ago — and even before that. Advertisement ...

According to a new study, these self-similar, repeating patterns in nature known as fractals help scientists better understand how the immune system is organized and may one day be used to help ...

In the context of psychology, fractals are repeating patterns that are identical, or similar. Examples in nature are leaves, snowflakes, flowers, ocean waves and similar elements in nature.

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center suggest that fractals, self-similar and repeating patterns found in nature, can help scientists understand the organization of ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

'Nature markets' may help preserve biodiversity—but they risk repeating colonial patterns of Indigenous exploitation Story by David Hall, Mike Taitoko, Nathalie Whitaker, Renee Raroa, Tasman ...

Other examples of nature’s fractals include clouds, rivers, coastlines and mountains. In 1999, my group used computer pattern analysis techniques to show that Pollock’s paintings are as ...