It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 400-million-year-old fossil reveals that, unlike most modern plants, some of the earliest land plants didn’t have leaves radiating out at angles that follow the Fibonacci sequence. The discovery ...

Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter in the process, according to a study published in Nature ...

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 ...