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 ...

Phylogenetic trees describe both the evolutionary process and community diversity. Recent work has established that they exhibit scale-invariant topology, which quantifies the fact that their ...

Although mammals of different species have different sleep patterns, brief sleep-wake transitions commonly are observed across species and appear to occur randomly throughout the sleeping period. The ...

Self-ssembly dynamics of 3nm quantum dots, 500 nm polystyrene spheres, 0.7 μm Micrococcus luteus bacterial cells, 1 μm x 2 μm Escherichia coli bacterial cells, 5 μm Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast ...