Two physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have found that leaf shape is a determining factor in the distance leaves travel as they fall from their tree. In their paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Matthew Dominic Biviano and Kaare Hartvig Jensen describe how they built a device that allowed them to mass-test falling leaves and what they learned through its use.
How a leaf’s symmetry and lobes impact its journey back to the tree
