Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

Fractal patterns in growing bacterial colonies 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.

Fractal patterns that arise when healthy human cells turn cancerous have been observed for the first time by scientists in the US. Using an atomic force microscope (AFM), Igor Sokolov and colleagues ...

On the brink of the metal-insulator transition, the electrons in a manganese-doped gallium arsenide semiconductor are distributed across the surface of the material in complex, fractal-like patterns.

University of Cambridge. "Fractal patterns spontaneously emerge during bacterial cell growth." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 11 June 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 06 / 130611084115 ...

Earth’s most beautiful fractal patterns have to be seen to be believed Computer science professor Paul Bourke has an exhaustive amount of information about fractals on his website, but for my ...

2 minute read The images in this gallery of natural fractal patterns on earth, viewed from space, have been curated from Google Earth by professor Paul Bourke. Egypt Barcroft Media / Landov ...

Geometric patterns are considered fractal when they repeat or look the same at every size scale. In a forthcoming paper in Physical Review E, MIT’s Barry Cael and his co-authors describe how the ...

Since fractals lag the market, they are meant to show real, longer-term trends, as opposed to quick moves up or down. Generally, investors use fractals with other rules or patterns.