Floret

Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Cauliflower and Chaos, Fractals in Every Floret” by Sabrina ImblerWhen two scientists tried to recreate cauliflowers in a lab, they found themselves perplexed and mesmerized by the vegetable’s fractal…

Monks once hoped to turn lead into gold through alchemy. But consider the cauliflower instead. It takes just two genes to transform the ordinary stems, stalks and flowers of the weedy, tasteless species Brassica oleracea into a formation as…