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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He taught us to recognize the diamond pattern on hickory bark and reminded us to check whether branches were opposite or ...

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 ...