Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you’ve already heard of fractals, you’ve probably seen the picture above. It’s called the Mandelbrot ...

Medical devices, as orthopaedics prostheses and dental implants, have been designed over years on the strength of mechanical, clinical and biological indications. This sequence is the commonly ...

Have you ever stared at a cauliflower before preparing it and got lost in its stunningly beautiful pattern? Probably not, if you are in your right mind, but I reassure you it's worth a try. What ...

Through the process of domestication, humans have selected plants best suited to their needs, for example, those with larger fruits or seeds that remain attached to the spike. It was known that these ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- July 27, 2017 -- Computer simulations of electrical charges sent to retinal implants based on fractal geometry have University of Oregon researchers moving forward with their eyes ...

Fractals---shapes that self-repeat in smaller forms again and again an infinite number of times---typically get represented as psychedelic, bacterial, tie-dye swirls. That’s possibly because the study ...