UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine the construction of leaf vein systems as leaves grow and evolve. These easy-to-apply mathematical rules can now be used to better predict ...

A leaf may appear to be one of the simplest structures in nature, thin, delicate and easily overlooked. At first glance, it ...

Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like ...

There have been many, many discoveries that promise longer battery life, but one of the latest is rare in taking its inspiration from one of the most common structures in nature: the leaf vein.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring ...

According to a research team led by palaeontologists, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several times.

(Nanowerk News) The natural structure found within leaves could improve the performance of everything from rechargeable batteries to high-performance gas sensors, according to an international team of ...