Consider yourself lucky if you find a four leaf clover, because they are rare in nature. In the natural world, there are certain patterns of numbers that repeat themselves over and over again, in the ...

Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...

Nature has a way of crafting designs that outshine our most advanced engineering. These remarkable creations have evolved ...

You're probably familiar with sunflowers, a member of the Asteraceae family of flowering plants. But the biology of the sunflower is a bit different than the common perception of a big flower composed ...

A spruce cone is marked to highlight its fibonacci number sequence. That sequence, explained by 13th century Italian mathematician Fibonacci, plays out in plants — from pine cones to pineapples — and ...

Math is magic. It is the language of the universe in which most laws abide by. Galileo said that “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics,” and on Nov. 23, we reflect on how a ...

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. Simple, yes, but ...

Scientists are investigating a mysterious pulse signal from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The signal reportedly follows a Fibonacci pattern and is detected at a frequency linked to interstellar ...