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

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In H. G. Wells’s novel The First Men in the Moon, our natural satellite is found to be inhabited by intelligent insect creatures who live in caverns below the surface. These creatures, let us assume, ...

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

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

Next time your wallet starts sweating at the thought of retail prices, remember that in this corner of Iowa, $34 isn’t just pocket change – it’s the beginning of a whole new wardrobe, a room makeover, ...

After three months of using an AI system to help flag polyps, they became less adept at spotting them unaided.But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind ...

t started as a fantasy, then a promise — inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists — and grew to become a powerful research tool. Now artificial intelligence has evolved into ...

Boycotts of Israeli universities, largely imposed in Europe, have multiplied since the start of the war and reflect Israel’s international isolation over its conduct in Gaza. By Elisabeth Bumiller As ...