Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

Before he became the father of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener was his father’s greatest experiment. Trained from birth to be ...

Science has long been associated with regulation, bureaucracy and bad business. But as advancements in science continue, we are realizing that this is not absolute. To look at this more in depth, ...

NEW YORK -- The NFL appears to have saved the kickoff after being on life support for years. Now its attention turns to the onside kick, which has been terminal for years. In its presentation to NFL ...

We live in a crowdsourced world, from movie reviews to online encyclopedias. Citizen science turns your love of the outdoors ...