It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but what do a pine cone, a sunflower head and a pineapple have in common?

The trippy swirling patterns seen in the heads of sunflowers may have finally given up their mathematical secret. Researchers and citizen scientists have analysed the golden coloured flowers as part ...

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 ...

Trying variants of a simple mathematical rule that yields interesting results can lead to additional discoveries and curiosities. The numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and 55 belong to a famous ...