It's not hard to find examples of this logarithmic phenomenon in nature — whether it's a simple houseplant (like the aloe plant) or an expansive spiral galaxy (like the spiral galaxy ...

I AM much obliged to Mr. Wright for his correction (NATURE, July 8, p. 40). I had made a search in English and Continental books on curves and concluded that this spiral had been overlooked as a ...

Having an irrational value guarantees this, so the spirals we see in nature are a consequence of this behavior. All these distributions follow logarithmic spirals, the general mathematical form of ...

It’s call the logarithmic spiral, and it abounds in nature. Snail shells and nautilus shells follow the logarithmic spiral, as does the cochlea of the inner ear. It can also be seen in the horns ...

Other golden spirals in nature include spiral galaxies and nautilus ... It's a natural example of the logarithmic or equiangular spiral. In plant biology, fractal designs are called spiral ...

The way the light behaves resembles spiral shapes common in nature. The researchers borrowed ... Code), their optical rotatum propagates in a logarithmic spiral that is seen in the shell of ...

Our findings are published today in the open access journal BMC Biology. Some patterns are very common in nature, such as logarithmic spirals that follow the golden ratio. These patterns appear ...