The same principle appears in tree branches as well. The precise calibration of branch diameter leads to a hallmark of fractal shapes called scale invariance. A scale invariance is a property that ...

The authors begin with Leonardo da Vinci's observation that trees limbs preserve their thickness as they branch. The parameter α, known as the radius scaling exponent in self-similar branching ...

Trees are loosely fractal, branching forms that repeat the same patterns at smaller and smaller scales from trunk to branch tip. Jingyi Gao and Mitchell Newberry examine scaling of branch ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

“The tree is healthy. It would be difficult to tell that the branch was going to fall. “It is really unfortunate. But the department will do whatever we can for the family," he said in a text ...

But there's a decision very early on in the book that I want to ask you about, which is that you have a family tree that has on one side the Shelleys and on the other side your parents. What it ...

Trees in nature follow a “self-similar” branching pattern called a fractal, in which the same structures repeat at smaller and smaller scales from the trunk to the branch tip. In the new study ...

The Hulbert family's forest is made up of 80 per cent UK-native species and 20 per cent non-native species. The trees include English oak, silver birch, red oak, Scots pine, giant redwood ...

Learn the basics you'll need to get started on your own research, from drawing up your family tree to exploring the archives. If you're tackling archives for the first time in a search for your ...