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

Georgetown University psychologist Shadab Tabatabaeian, the paper’s lead author, imagines a “cool application” of their ...

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

Researchers have developed an AI-powered 'scientific assistant' designed to accelerate the scientific process by helping them ...

The adjusted r-squared is helpful for multiple regression and corrects for erroneous regression, giving you a more accurate correlation coefficient. If you look at the multiple regression we did, ...

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 be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A remarkable manuscript bound in furry seal skin has emerged as potentially Norway's oldest surviving book, offering unprecedented insights into medieval Christian life in Scandinavia. The eight-page ...

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 ...

Original text published in 1925 under title: Preparation of scientific and technical papers. siris_sil_431802 ...

Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of London, 1986) https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...