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 ...

Marjorie Rice, a homemaker from San Diego, solved a decades-old geometry problem in 1975. Her discovery of new pentagon ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent, integrated into phone apps, search engines and social media platforms ...

Discover the list of 9 most famous mathematicians in history. Learn about Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, whose ideas shaped ...

The 35-year-old saga of Kryptos, an enigmatic sculpture containing four encrypted messages outside the CIA headquarters, just took a bizarre twist. Though cryptographers broke the first three passages ...

How many years’ worth of calendars would need to be kept so that they can be used in the same order over and over again for the same number of years? The calendars should always be valid, meaning that ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

The company announced plans in July to buy Core Scientific, a Bitcoin miner and data center operator. Shares of Core Scientific dropped nearly 18% after the announcement, though they have since ...

The Nobel Prize is regarded as the most prestigious award for achievements in fields such as physics, chemistry, and medicine ...