As their results began to crystallize, at first they didn’t notice the striking patterns emerging. But a colleague who reviewed their work spotted the famed Fibonacci numbers—a list whose entries have ...

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 ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.