Nature follows a number pattern called Fibonacci This undated photo shows a spruce cone with a marked fibonacci number sequence.

That sequential splitting generates a characteristic pattern in the sizes of rocks-and the abundance of species. It's also exactly the one we observe in nature. In short, Sugihara and colleagues have ...

The husband-and-wife team behind Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (2010) demystify the concept of fractals, which mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used to help understand complicated ...

Chia Seeds Confirm Alan Turing’s Predictions On Patterns In Nature This is the first time that Turing Patterns in vegetation have been validated in such a way.

Working with pattern blocks, tangrams, and 3D shapes are part of every elementary teacher’s geometry curriculum. But have you ever gone outdoors and observed nature’s design? The natural ...

This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

Philip Ball's Patterns in Nature is a jaw-dropping exploration of why the world looks the way it does, with 250 color photographs of the most dramatic examples of the “sheer splendor” of ...