Ammonites are a tale of two textures. The prehistoric cephalopods were composed of fleshy soft tissue (the living bit of the animals) and hard external shells, which, according to a paper published ...

This week I’ve been investigating fractals. I’ll give you some examples of everyday fractals to get us started. See if you can find the common thread. Snowflakes, snails, ferns. Bonnie Blodgett Yup, ...

You may not be able to define “fractal” — yet — but fractals are, in fact, everywhere. As you might expect from hearing her title, Hayley Brazier, Donald M. Kerr curator of natural history at the High ...