Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fibonacci spiral is found across nature as well as the galaxy itself. Who doesn’t love a good math holiday? Most people know ...

Time for some simple mathematics that span across the scientific world. This week, we’re exploring just some examples of the “golden ratio”. * Enough of getting bogged down in the numbers, here’s ...

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 ...

Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...

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 ...