Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem⁠—a nearly two-century-old f ...

407-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Plant Bamboozles Scientists By Not Following Fibonacci Sequence Turns out it’s not as easy as 0, 1, 1, 2, 3.

By LEE REICH, Associated Press Mar 16, 2013 Mar 16, 2013 0 ...

That sequence, explained by 13th century Italian mathematician Fibonacci, plays out in plants — from pine cones to pineapples — and art. By Lee Reich The Associated Press ...

Life Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule as modern ones do Most modern plants grow leaves in a pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence, but a reconstruction of a 400-million-year ...

In essence, when you shoot laser pulses following the Fibonacci numbers, they act as a sort of quasicrystal, the physicists say, a structure of matter that adheres to a pattern, but is not periodic.