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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What we today call the golden mean was known in antiquity. It is a specific ratio of lengths between two line segments. Ancient architects often used this ratio to achieve visually pleasing esthetic ...