Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature Sarah C. Campbell , photos by Sarah C. and Richard P. Campbell. Boyds Mills , $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59078-752-6 ...

The husband-and-wife team behind Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (2010) demystify the concept of fractals, which mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot used to help understand complicated ...

How I Use Nature's Patterns to Optimize Garden Design Patterns help us find efficiencies—to see the path of least resistance—and learn from nature what works best.

When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them "flower arrangements." He could also say "fingerprints" or "sand ripples" or "how plants grow." "Most patterns you see ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using ...

This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns A new book explores the physical and chemical reasons behind incredible visual structures in the living and non-living world ...

From rippled waves to striated skies, natural patterns afford a wonderful opportunity to contemplate nature’s most powerful expressions.

New research suggests that while corals can look totally random, there's a real method to all that reef madness.

Fractal Patterns in Nature and Art Are Aesthetically Pleasing and Stress-Reducing One researcher takes this finding into account when developing retinal implants that restore vision ...