The Hall China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, made the first pieces of the Autumn Leaf pattern ware, also known as Jewel Tea, as premiums for the Jewel Tea Company of Barrington, Ill., in 1933, with ...

Francesco Vuolo and colleagues from the laboratory of Max Planck Director Miltos Tsiantis are investigating the mechanisms underlying the dazzling variation in leaf shapes one can see in nature.

In autumn, it is not only the colours that catch the eye, but also the different sizes and shapes of leaves. But what makes leaves of different plants differ so much in their shapes? Scientists at the ...