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 ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, KOCO 5 is looking to the people and icons making and preserving Black history in our ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Watch for downed trees, branches and wires. Never drive over a downed power line. Call 911 and either turn around or stay put until help arrives," the New Jersey Department of Transportation warns.