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

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 ...

A new software enables brain simulations which both imitate the processes in the brain in detail and can solve challenging ...

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

New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

New analysis shows that the Pleiades cluster constitutes the core of a much larger structure of related stars that are ...

A new type of "ink" makes it possible to 3D print electrochemically switchable, conducting polymers using a light-based process. Researchers from the universities of Heidelberg and Stuttgart have ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...