In April 2024, Sendker et al. released a paper in the scientific journal Nature about the finding that a bacterial molecule, citrate synthase, forms Sierpinski triangles. A Sierpinski triangle is a famous example of triangles composed of triangles, such that if you observe the inner triangles, those too are composed of even smaller triangles. For ...

“Will it hurt?”    The question posed was not an uncommon one for the surgeon. But as he looked into the boy’s bright blue eyes, eyes on the verge of tears, eyes that could not disguise the horror that he felt, a catch formed in the surgeon’s throat, and he had to look away as ...