Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses humanity's long-time fascination with ginormous numbers—and what this obsession reveals ...

This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hello! Today we are learning how to count one more and one less in a collection of objects. Here are ...

Parents typically start teaching their children to count at an early age: one fish two fish, three little pigs, five little monkeys, and so on. Research has shown that kids don’t fully understand the ...

Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like ...