Some people think 2+2=5... and they might be right. A statistician explains how abstract math can have real-world limitations ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...

Helena Osana received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for this research. Jairo A. Navarrete-Ulloa receives funding from the National Agency for Research and ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves ...

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