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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-old plant reveals that its leaves grew much more chaotically

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How maths can help you pack your shopping more efficiently

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Mathematicians make even better never-repeating tile discovery

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Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

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Physicist David Wolpert on how to study concepts beyond imagination

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2B034C5 In addition to Herman Melville's own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two real events served as the genesis for his Moby Dick. One was the sinking of the Nantucket ship Essex in 1820, after a sperm whale rammed her 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the western coast of South America. The other event was the alleged killing in the late 1830s of the albino sperm whale Mocha Dick, in the waters off the Chilean island of Mocha. Mocha Dick was rumored to have 20 or so harpoons in his back from other whalers, and appeared to attack ships with premeditated ferocity.

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Once Upon a Prime review: The connections between maths and fiction

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Mathematician wins Abel prize for solving equations with geometry

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Breakthrough in fiendishly hard puzzle has mathematicians partying

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Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat

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Quantum computers may finally have their first real practical use

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Mathematical trick lets hackers shame people into fixing software bugs

Security researchers who find a flaw in software normally privately inform the developers of it in the hope of prompting a fix, but now a mathematical trick can let them apply public pressure without releasing dangerous details of the bug

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Why maths, our best tool to describe the universe, may be fallible

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To make maths classes sizzle, inject some politics and social justice

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Humans beat DeepMind AI in creating algorithm to multiply numbers

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DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers

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