DURHAM, N.C. – Nature, in the simple form of a tree canopy, appears to provide keen insights into the best way to design complex systems to move substances from one place to another, an essential ...

The system could also work in reverse, showing how other aspects of a structure should be altered in order to utilize a given tree fork for a specific node. In the next step of the process, another ...

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 ...