The Fibonacci sequence -- in which each successive number is the sum of its two preceding numbers -- regularly crops up in nature. It describes the number of petals around daisies, how the density of ...

Time for some simple mathematics that span across the scientific world. This week, we’re exploring just some examples of the “golden ratio”. * Enough of getting bogged down in the numbers, here’s ...

Parul Yadav, however, captured this image with an electron microscope looking at light-driven copolymerization of gelatin ...

Gael Mariani and Martin Scott perpetuate a series of myths in their letter about Fibonacci numbers in nature (3 September, p 19). It is true that the Fibonacci numbers are associated with a particular ...

Nature held within it the famous mathematical pattern of the Fibonacci sequence, hidden within every aspect of the natural world. However, a long-held theory assumed that ancient plants were different ...