Who's zooming who? Frogs, fractals and the tree of life Date: December 18, 2012 Source: British Ecological Society (BES) Summary: As ecologists assemble ever larger parts of the tree of life ...

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 ...

A tree with many fractal branches (and also roots) can better connect to the sun (and soil) to gather and exchange life-sustaining nutrients.

New research has revealed a quantity related to the complexity and proportions of a tree's branches that artists have preserved and played with to affect if and how viewers perceive a tree.

For 40 million years, fern-like organisms called rangeomorphs ruled the world, because their branching bodies made them perfect diffusion feeders ...

The central panel of Gustav Klimt's, "Tree of Life" triptych, painted around 1910 to 1911, was one of the artworks analyzed in the study. incamerastock/Alamy Stock Photo ...

A tree with many fractal branches (and also roots) can better connect to the sun (and soil) to gather and exchange life-sustaining nutrients.