What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

Designer Orlando Soria breaks down why realistic trees look the way they do—and how to get that elevated effect at home. Interior designer Orlando Soria recommends flattening faux tree branches to ...

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 ...