When you count the number of petals that different flowers have, you’ll discover that the most common number of petals is five. Buttercups, geraniums, pansies, primroses, rhododendrons, tomato ...

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 ...

Look closely at a sunflower, and you'll see the distinct spiral in its center. | UrsaHoogle/iStock via Getty Images Many flowers have petals that add up to Fibonacci numbers, including buttercups, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hindu Science Quiz: Of the corpse flower and Fibonacci series Which plant is named “century plant” but lives only up to 30 years, and why does the Neelakurinji blooms every 12 years. To find out ...