Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

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Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...

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