For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal: if it looks the same no ...

What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in common? They all contain fractals: Nature’s exquisite, endlessly repeating mathematical pattern. A fractal, according to Franco-Polish ...

Consistently, Ohsumi and colleagues showed that calcineurin is activated immediately after Ca 2+ addition to arrested X. laevis egg extracts and that this occurred concomitantly with, but ...

The contrast between the charred and intact wood, and the way the resin fills the voids really brings out the fractal nature of the Lichtenberg figures. [PapaJ06] doesn’t really show us too ...

As it happens, these four lines can serve as a perfect metaphor for the infinitely detailed, "self-similar" nature of fractals. In this interactive, zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set, the most ...

Marcus du Sautoy describes how fractal geometry can be used to describe natural objects, and how it is used in digital animation. Trees use the simple rule of trying to maximise surface area ...