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 seems to ...

For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal: if it looks the same no matter the scale. And the answer is: no, not really. But in some ways, yes.

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In a first, scientists have stumbled across a natural protein that follows a mathematical pattern of self-similarity called a fractal. The peculiar protein changes our understanding of self-assembly ...

The solutions proposed by fractal mathematics have led various branches of human endeavor to incorporate them into their workings. People have begun to see the world in fractals, non-integer ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...

The maths behind the rugged beauty of a coastline may help to keep cell biology in order, say researchers in Germany. Fractals -- rough shapes that look the same at all scales--could explain how the ...

FIG.1. (a) Schematic representation of the third generation of the Sierpinski gasket waveguide arrays with r=0.3a, 0.5a, 0.6a. Blue and orange sectors of these arrays represent the first and ...