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, ...

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From the spirals of seashells to the arrangement of sunflower seeds, nature consistently follows a remarkable mathematical pattern known as the golden ratio. While this ratio has fascinated ...

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 ...

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 ...

New details on how the brain stores info, and why it's limited. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2009 — -- Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from ...