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 ...

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 ...

Expert team from the Italian Council of Research will explain how the Italian mathematician revolutionised western culture through numbers Roberto Natalini, scientific advisor at the Italian Council ...