Today's video is a good beginning for a Monday morning in spring. It tells you a little about Fibonacci numbers in nature, a subject that Alan Turing was studying before he died. This video also tells ...

While the aesthetics and symmetry of Fibonacci spiral patterns has often attracted scientists, a mathematical or physical explanation for their common occurrence in nature is yet to be discovered.

You're probably familiar with sunflowers, a member of the Asteraceae family of flowering plants. But the biology of the sunflower is a bit different than the common perception of a big flower composed ...