As many people will remember from school science classes, bacteria growing on solid surfaces form colonies that can be easily visible to the naked eye. Each of these is a complex biological system in ...
Sarah C. Campbell, photos by Sarah C. and Richard P. Campbell. Boyds Mills, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62091-627-8 The husband-and-wife team behind Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (2010) ...
Discoveries of new overarching rules or “laws” in nature are very rare. Surprisingly, my colleagues and I have found a new rule of biological growth that explains unexpected similarities in sharp ...