How number systems shape our thinking, and what this means for learning, language and culture

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

CERN’s Quantum AI Flags 5-Sigma Anomaly—EU Scientists Hold Public Data Release

In September 2024, physicists made a discovery at CERN that could change how we understand the universe. For the first time, ...
MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and ...
Scientific American

How to Identify a Prime Number without a Computer

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

A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...

Decoding new DNA 'letters' to advance medicine and biotechnology

A research team led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have developed a method to accurately and ...
University of Nevada, Reno

Ask the Professor: Why do we use a sideways 8 to represent infinity?

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.