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Science News
August 31, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Golden Blossoms, Pi Flowers Fibonacci numbers (and the golden ratio) come up surprisingly often in nature, from the number of petals in various flowers to the number of scales along a spiral row in a pine cone. How do these numbers and the golden ratio arise?   |
Science News
September 3, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Fermat's Natural Spirals The tightly packed florets at a daisy's center have an intriguing arrangement. The florets get larger at greater distances from the center. And there are hints of clockwise and anticlockwise spirals in the pattern. One way to model such a pattern is to start with a curve called Fermat's spiral. |
Science News
September 28, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Stepping Beyond Fibonacci Numbers Trying variants of a simple mathematical rule that yields interesting results can lead to additional discoveries and curiosities. |
Science News
June 30, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
A Golden Sales Pitch A design incorporating the golden ratio makes blue jeans aesthetically pleasing, or so the manufacturer claims. |
Science News
April 2, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Sea Shell Spirals This growth process of a nautilus yields an elegant spiral structure, visible when the shell is sliced to reveal the individual chambers. Many accounts describe this pattern as a logarithmic (or equiangular) spiral and link it to a number known as the golden ratio... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News
June 3, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Missing Flowers The number of petals that a flower has isn't always a Fibonacci number. You have to be careful when you're building mathematical models of natural phenomena. |
National Gardening
April 2000
Barbara Pleasant |
Balloon Flower Easy to grow, reliable, looks great as a border -- and it's blue |
Chemistry World
August 27, 2013
Ian Le Guillou |
A golden answer to drug competition The golden ratio, first noted around 300BC by Euclid in his mathematical treatise The Elements, can be found across geometry, nature and now even pharmacology. The golden ratio could point the way for a simple method of determining competition between drugs. |
Science News
October 19, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
A Fibonacci Fountain Lake Fibonacci is a recently created reservoir at the Maryland Science and Technology Center, bordered by Curie Drive and Science Drive. The lake's remarkable centerpiece is a massive, yet elegant mathematical fountain that spurts water as high as 36 feet into the air. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
The Holiday Cactus For lavish winter color, invite these rainforest natives indoors |
Science News
December 16, 2006 |
Timeline: From the December 12, 1936, issue Spiral organization found in paraffin crystals... Lifesaver for "bleeders" found in egg white... Seedless fruits formed in unpollinated flowers... |
National Gardening
Lynn Byczynski |
Organic Flower Farming Growing cut flowers for farmers' markets. |
Science News
March 12, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Other Numbers Generalized Fibonacci arrays have attractive properties and could provide a wealth of further activities for exploration... Puzzle of the Week... |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Golden West Sizzles A focus on adjustable rate mortgages and cost control allows Golden West Financial to deliver a great quarter and set itself up well for the future. |
AskMen.com
John Romaniello |
The Secret To The Perfect Body: The Golden Ratio This is a number that shows up all over the human body (for example, the length of the arms and legs, compared to the torso), and it seems to define what proportions look best. |
Science News
February 3, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Chinese Calendar The curious coincidence of the Fibonacci cycle and the Chinese calendar cycle allowed Seok Sagong of Middletown, Conn., to establish a one-to-one correspondence between the sequence of final digits of Fibonacci numbers and the names of years in the Chinese calendar... |
Popular Mechanics
June 13, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
5 Reasons Why Researchers Say The Happening Is Junk Science In these days of melting ice caps and wild weather, M. Night Shyamalan's new movie poses an interesting question: What happens if the environment, spurred by centuries of pollution and disregard, turns against us? |
