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 ...

SINGAPORE - A woman was injured after an Angsana tree branch fell on her in Redhill Close on the morning of Jan 26. In response to queries from The Straits Times, the Singapore Civil Defence ...

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 ...

KOTA KINABALU: A falling branch that killed a Chinese tourist at the Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) Sandakan was from a healthy tree, says the Sabah Forestry Department. Deputy chief ...

KOTA KINABALU: A 74-year-old tourist from China died after a tree branch fell on him at the Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) at Sepilok in Sandakan. The man suffered an injury to his head in the ...

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 popular outdoor cinema has been closed since a pine tree branch fell near audience seating 10 minutes into a Saturday-night showing of All We Imagine As Light on February 1. Arborists brought ...

Two people were injured Tuesday after an exchange of gunfire between a suspect and officers with the Farmers Branch and Addison police departments, officials said. The injuries were not believed ...

That plan did not work, as a person climbed high up the tree with a chainsaw, cutting down branches that had ropes tied to them for a softer fall to the ground. "To be in an area where trees are ...