The meristem of the gerbera is patterned on the molecular level already at a stage where no primordia or other changes are discernible by even an electron microscope. When people are asked to draw the ...

We combined molecular biology, microscopy and computational modeling to solve this historical question. We examined auxin reporter lines of gerbera and combined diverse microscopy and modeling ...

You're probably familiar with sunflowers, a member of the Asteraceae family of flowering plants. But the biology of the sunflower is a bit different than the common perception of a big flower composed ...

Time for some simple mathematics that span across the scientific world. This week, we’re exploring just some examples of the “golden ratio”. * Enough of getting bogged down in the numbers, here’s ...

Life reconstruction of fossil Asteroxylon mackiei. Credit: Matt Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves.

This morning's science/maths video takes a look at something that has always fascinated me and inspires some of my nature photography: capturing the Fibonacci series in plants. The Fibonacci series ...

The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

Try to imagine a day without numbers. Try to imagine getting through the first hour of that day. No alarm clock, no time, no date, no television or radio, no stock market report or sports results in ...

When people are asked to draw the flower of a sunflower plant, almost everyone draws a large circle encircled by yellow petals. "Actually, that structure is the flower head, or the capitulum, which ...