A gorgeous solution to a common problem... This mesmerizing mechanical vise adjusts its shape to hold oddly shaped items still without damaging them, using a design first patented more than a century ...

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Lara Julian, a true Londoner, is painting not just canvases but the very future of contemporary art. With three remarkable ...

By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve the ...

By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve the ...

Spring break kicks off Saturday at the High Desert Museum with special programs, new exhibitions and summer hours, 9:00 am – ...

Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life counterparts, scientists have found. The math concept hidden in this tree art — ...

“We analyse trees in artwork as self-similar, fractal forms, and empirically compare art with theories of branch thickness developed in biology,” researchers explained. open image in gallery ...

New York Times photographers covered Covid-19 throughout the world. These pictures, and the moments behind them, stayed with them. New York Times photographers covered Covid-19 throughout the world.

Fractals are curious designs that show up when patterns repeat themselves at different ... a graduate student in physics at Princeton and one of the paper’s co-lead authors. He believes these images ...