What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th-century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa. Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps ...

Changes in genomic copy number can also occur via whole-genome doubling (WGD) and chromothripsis. These evolutionary events may be rampant during tumor development and can transpire into the evolution ...

The seemingly random digits known as prime numbers are not nearly as scattershot as previously thought. A new analysis by Princeton University researchers has uncovered patterns in primes that are ...

From zebra stripes to a honeycomb lattice, nature features breathtaking patterns. Now, physicists based in China have found a way to recreate these natural motifs in 3-D — using just a little ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Past studies on the differences between the processing of numerical and verbal information have typically considered numerical information in ...

Until now, estimates of the world’s species ranged from 3 million to 100 million. Five academics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, refined the number by compiling taxonomic data for ...