The Fibonacci sequence is a famous mathematical sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. People claim there are many special properties about the numerical sequence, such as ...

Consider yourself lucky if you find a four-leaf clover because these are rare in nature. In the natural world, there is a number pattern that repeats itself: in the way flower petals are attached to a ...

OK, I won't try and explain any of this in detail since I don't understand it, either but we'll take a broad crack at it. So there's this mathematical phenomenon that appears throughout theory, ...

The world could use some good luck these days. Unfortunately, Ireland’s fabled solution — finding a four-leaf clover — remains as hard as ever to pull off this Saint Patrick’s Day. That’s because the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

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 ...

Number theory, the study of the properties of positive integers, is perhaps the purest form of mathematics. At first sight, it may seem far too abstract to apply to the natural world. In fact, the ...