There's nothing subtle about sunflowers. There they stand, taller than the garden fence, with vibrant yellow heads screaming summer and 'look at me'. But as summer turns to autumn, their heavy heads ...

The trippy swirling patterns seen in the heads of sunflowers may have finally given up their mathematical secret. Researchers and citizen scientists have analysed the golden coloured flowers as part ...

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 ...

The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

Do you know what Fibonacci Day is? This holiday honors Leonardo Bonacci, also known as Fibonacci, one of the finest medieval mathematicians. Fibonacci is best known for writing Liber Abaci ("The Book ...

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 ...

THE Fibonacci is a famous sequence of numbers that begins with 1. Each subsequent number is obtained by adding together the previous two: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 and so on. The sequence ...

The meristem of the gerbera is patterned on the molecular level already at a stage where no primordia or other changes are discernible by even an electron microscope. When people are asked to draw the ...