A newly reconstructed fossil is forcing scientists to revisit one of nature’s most recognizable patterns. The ...

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

These findings suggest that plants alive today may have evolved leaves that are arranged in Fibonacci spirals throughout ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter. According to popular science mag Nature, the newfound phase ...

The technique could be used to protect quantum computer data from errors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By firing a Fibonacci ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

At first glance, the Fibonacci sequence might seem like no more than a bit of mathematical trickery. But look around, and it pops up again and again and again, in computer science and in nature. It’s ...