Prime numbers are the ones that have only two factors: 1 and itself. Credit: Ssindhwani / Wikimedia Commons Prime numbers are those divisible only by themselves and by one. Despite their apparent ...

Researchers investigating the evolution of leaves discovered a rare insight into leaf arrangement through 3D models of the ancient plant.

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? If you're trying a bunch of arithmetic operations to make the numbers work, you're ...

Here's a deeply satisfying number pattern for your mathematical Monday. Here, Numberphile explains the Kolakoski sequence, which begins as follows: 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2 ...