At the intersection of mathematics and nature, scientists have found intriguing and often beautiful designs. Pinecone scales ...

Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.

Nature is its own most incorrigible plagiarist; echoes of the same aesthetic motifs show up in all kinds of places and all kinds of scales. Here, the finned texture resembles the underside of a ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

China’s latest nature reserve is a rock in the middle of one of the world’s most contested waterways. On Wednesday, the Chinese government approved a proposal to establish a national nature reserve at ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

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 ...

Over the past 220 years, the connection between people and nature has declined by more than 60%. That's the key finding of a study led by Miles Richardson, a professor of nature connectedness at the ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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, ...