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 ...

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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 ...

3I/ATLAS imaged by the Two-Meter Twin Telescope in the Canary Islands — showing a sunward jet nearly 6,000 km long. According to Sereda’s October 13 report, the object emitted light flashes in a ...

Abstract: Mathematicians and Computer Scientists love Fibonacci numbers because the rule to generate the sequence is very simple, but they are related to many challenging conjectures. There are around ...

This month’s theme is: Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a look at Nitro.js—fast becoming the go-to server ...

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 ...

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 ...

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