Scientists take a crack at recreating the hypnotic fractal spirals of the Romanesco cauliflower. Credit...Evan Sung for The New York Times Supported by By Sabrina Imbler Monks once hoped to turn lead ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The human world is distressingly chaotic. Nature, in contrast, always has a plan. This is on display in my ...

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 ...

You may not be able to define “fractal” — yet — but fractals are, in fact, everywhere. As you might expect from hearing her title, Hayley Brazier, Donald M. Kerr curator of natural history at the High ...

romanesco buds have a shape that is mathematically called 'fractal'. A research team at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has published a paper that elucidates the mechanism of ...

From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. Many of these patterns even resemble geometric ...

Fractals are geometric objects that are self-similar, i.e., you can break them apart into smaller pieces which are exact (but smaller) replicas of the original object. These smaller pieces in turn, ...