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

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

Optimizing tree architecture is a long-standing challenge in fruit production, as branch orientation directly affects light ...

A seemingly random tree branch has stumped internet users looking for the moth hidden in plain sight. The image, shared on Reddit by user u/crabbysammy, shows a mottled branch with a moth blending ...

What must you see to ID a tree? And what must you see during the winter, when a thick cover of snow sits atop leaf beds. That is what Bill Michaelek, manager and naturalist at Beaver Meadow Audubon ...