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

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The Sahara has withstood numerous projects aimed at halting its expansion. A solution based on the shape of the land has ...

During mass extinction events or periods that were particularly warm, the role of coastline geometry in extinction risk was ...

Roasted broccoli often turns dry and leathery—but this simple step at the end of cooking keeps it browned, tender, and ...

From above the Museum of Military History in Vienna presents a commanding neoclassical structure set within the expansive ...

Genlisea, or the “corkscrew” carnivorous plant, doesn’t wait above ground to hunt. Here’s how it traps tiny prey right ...

A key challenge in parallel adaptive Cartesian grid generation is significant computational load imbalance during k‑d tree ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...