Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

When Fibonacci introduced what would become an eponymous sequence, he did so using rabbits as an analogy. Breeding pairs of rabbits are able to multiply within their ranks infinitely. Unfortunately, ...

Astronomers are intrigued by a strange series of pulses detected from 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object in our Solar System.

Your teacher was right – math is everywhere, and it turns out that even whales use it. Stunning drone video has captured two massive humpback whales in Antarctica creating a Fibonacci spiral, ...

An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution. Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical concept that has been around for centuries. Named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, the sequence is derived by adding the ...

Physicists shot a laser pulse sequence mimicking the Fibonacci sequence at a quantum computer and ended up creating a new phase of matter in the process, according to a study published in Nature ...

Sandy Hetherington receives funding for this research from a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T018585/1 and a Royal Society Research Grant RGS\R2\212063. Holly-Anne Turner does ...