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 ...

In the head of a sunflower, the tiny florets that turn into seeds are typically arranged in two intersecting families of spirals, one winding clockwise and the other winding counterclockwise. Count ...

If you don’t know what Fibonacci day is then go now and have a look at the calendar, write today’s date in the Month/Day format (11/23), you’ll notice a pattern, the first four digits of the famous ...

Patterns with regular shapes turn up all over the place. You can see them as epidermal ridges on the tips of your fingers, as zebra stripes or as the beautiful architecture of the seeds at the center ...