When you count the number of petals that different flowers have, you’ll discover that the most common number of petals is five. Buttercups, geraniums, pansies, primroses, rhododendrons, tomato ...

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 ...

Try to imagine a day without numbers. Try to imagine getting through the first hour of that day. No alarm clock, no time, no date, no television or radio, no stock market report or sports results in ...

Look closely at a sunflower, and you'll see the distinct spiral in its center. | UrsaHoogle/iStock via Getty Images Many flowers have petals that add up to Fibonacci numbers, including buttercups, ...

The spiral arrangements of leaves on a stem, and the number of petals, sepals and spirals in flower heads during the development of most plants, represent successive numbers in the famous series ...

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 ...

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. Every November 23, math lovers celebrate Fibonacci Day, a nod to the ...