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 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).

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

Diogenes spent much of his energy looking for an honest man. This is how the story goes, although historians have challenged the myth. I’d be content to find an honest man or woman happy with the mess ...

Many climate scientists call our current epoch the “Anthropocene” — the first human-driven climate era. Many technologists ...

For how much time we spend staring at our phones and computers, it was inevitable that we would become… close. And the ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

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