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 ...

Researchers in Japan have studied how artists like Akiko Nakayama take advantage of fluid mechanics to create their art. Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama manipulates alcohol and inks to create tree-like ...

Dendritic painting is an artistic technique that involves depositing mixtures of ink and rubbing alcohol onto paint spread on a substrate, producing branching, tree-like patterns. Two physicists have ...