Other examples of nature’s fractals include clouds, rivers, coastlines and mountains. In 1999, my group used computer pattern analysis techniques to show that Pollock’s paintings are as ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Marburg and the Philipps University in Marburg have discovered the first regular molecular fractal in nature. It is an enzyme in cyanobacteria, known ...

Here, we explain 14 fascinating and beautiful examples of fractals in nature. 1. of 9. Romanesco Broccoli . Cathy Scola / Getty Images.

As he proved, fractal patterns were often found in nature’s roughness—in clouds, coastlines, plant leaves, ocean waves, the rise and fall of the Nile River, and in the clustering of galaxies.

The results of many studies show that exposure to fractal patterns in nature reduce people’s levels of stress up to 60%. It seems this stress reduction effect occurs because of a certain ...

Nature is messy, craggy and chaotic — or so it seemed until 1975, the year a maverick mathematician, Benoît Mandelbrot, invented the term fractals to describe patterns he had discerned within ...

The idea that, if you zoom in far enough, you’ll eventually encounter a structure that repeats the initial pattern you saw on larger scales, is mathematically realized in the concept of a fractal.

Nature 'Fractals are everywhere, even within the human body: our nervous system, blood vessels and the structure of our brain and lungs' What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in ...

Other examples of nature's fractals include clouds, rivers, coastlines and mountains. Are fractals the secret to some soothing natural scenes? Credit: Ronan, CC BY-NC-ND ...