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

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 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).

New whole-genome sequencing data reveals how strongly DNA shapes everyday traits, closing the long-standing gap in ...

The bees were split into two groups. For the first one, a short flash was the “dot” in Morse code, and it was associated with ...

Nat Geo Explorer Zeb Hogan has spent decades asking the question. “I thought there would be a simple answer,” he now concedes, after recording a 661-pound stingray. “I was wrong.” Scientists tag and ...

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...

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