Jean-Paul Sartre’s line, “Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have,” belongs to that rare kind. It does not celebrate who you ...

Celebrate the simple mathematical sequence that is hidden in everything from sunflower spirals to Da Vinci's paintings Discover why the sequence is considered nature's secret code, governing ...

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. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Poor Claptrap has once again ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and his robotic parts are now scattered all over the place. To start, you’ll need to find his chassis, so check your map and ...

The famous Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers that occurs naturally in many aspects of life. It’s something that has been a part of the mathematics world since at least 200 BCE, but in recent ...

The stable or robust transfer of matter, information, or energy, from one point in space to another is a crucial scientific and technological challenge. In 1983, Nobel laureate D. J. Thouless proposed ...

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 ...

This paper presents a creative method for approximating the golden ratio (ϕ≈1.618033988749895\phi \approx 1.618033988749895\phi \approx 1.618033988749895) by squaring Fibonacci numbers and dividing ...

Red Bull is on the brink of a big moment in Formula One history. This weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola will be the 400th time a Red Bull car has graced the grid. F1, as much a race against ...

Fibonacci sequences are sequences of numbers whose first two elements are 0, 1, and such that, starting from the third number, every element of the sequence is the sum of the previous two. They are of ...