Satellite views of Earth's major river systems reveal their familiar treelike drainage patterns. The pattern - called dendritic - and its prevalence suggests that it may be the optimal state in which ...

Vol. 376, No. 2113, Theme issue: From atomistic interfaces to dendritic patterns (28 February 2018), pp. 1-30 (30 pages) Motivated by important applications in materials science and geophysics, we ...

Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama manipulates alcohol and inks to create tree-like dendritic patterns during a live painting session. Credit: Akiko Nakayama Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama manipulates ...

A new study by former University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate student Jeffrey Kwang, now at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Abigail Langston, of Kansas State University; and ...