Looking at a globe, a country’s coastline may appear smooth and continuous. But zoom in with a satellite view and that neat ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do mountains, broccoli and the stock market have in common? The answer to that question may best be explained by fractals, the branch of geometry that explains irregular shapes ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes famously once wrote, "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." My mind, and assuredly those of countless others, never did after ...

Predicting the size, location, and timing of natural hazards is virtually impossible, but now, earth scientists are able to forecast hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and ...

Unexpectedly, the length of a country’s coastline depends on your ruler. As the measuring stick gets shorter (left to right), it can better fit within Great Britain’s nooks and crannies. The shorter ...

And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. — Jonathan Swift, from "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" The satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels might have been talking about ...

Video feedback occurs whenever a video camera is directed at a screen displaying the image currently being recorded by the camera. It can be observed in everyday situations, for example at sporting ...

Fractal geometry is one of the most elegant and beautiful branches of mathematics. An early analysis of fractals came from a surprising and weird phenomenon that occurs when you try to measure a ...