Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

In a consumerism-driven society, being grateful for what you already have is a radical act. There is always something to be ...

The Montana health department this week submitted its proposal to access hundreds of millions of federal dollars to bolster ...

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).

Pore-forming proteins are found throughout nature. In humans, they play key roles in immune defense, while in bacteria they ...

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

A research team including a scientist of Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, has identified a novel principle in biology that mathematically explains why the ...

UChicago political scientist Susan C. Stokes analyzes the current moment while offering solutions to a polarized public ...

By amplifying light from dark excitons 300,000 times, scientists opened a new path for faster, more efficient quantum and ...