A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees. Trees are loosely ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

LONGMONT — Once you’ve seen Thompson Park from the top of the highest tree around, it’s hard to look at trees the same way. At least, that’s what Harv Teitelbaum says. “You get views that very few ...