This Research Topic highlights recent advances in fractal geometry, fractional calculus, and artificial intelligence (AI) for addressing complex problems in ...

The inventor sketched intricate muscular structures half a millennium ago. Turns out he was on to something.

“Pounding earth or making mud bricks out of earth [as opposed to firing clay bricks] is one of the most universal and ancient ...

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Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

Turbulence is a fundamental process in a wide range of natural and laboratory systems. Experiments and observations often measure projected images of tracers in turbulent flows. Because the underlying ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...