It is no exaggeration to say that Mandelbrot is one of the greatest masterminds of our era. Thanks to his work, visual images ...

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 ...

From the spiral arms of galaxies to microscopic snow crystals, nature seems to fall into fractal-like patterns that repeat in increasingly smaller increments. No matter how small you go ...

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 ...