Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

DELEON SPRINGS - To a homeowner wanting to eliminate yard debris, tree branches and stumps are trash, but Sam Knowles sees birds, bears, alligators, turtles, moose, and fish hiding in them. Knowles ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in ...

“The branch was taken to the workshop and twisted, turned, and readapted so it could hug a flat wall and live a new life as a shelf,” says a statement on the artist’s website. Errazuriz’s final ...

Leonardo da Vinci was wrong about trees. The multitalented, Renaissance genius wrote down his “rule of trees” over 500 years ago. It described the way he thought that trees branch. Though it was a ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If you have big ideas for a garden but only a ...