Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

(1) A general model is presented that relates resource investment in clonal plants, in terms of allocation to spacers (rhizomes, stolons), to clonal morphology in terms of spacer length and branching ...

Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...