There's a part of the brain that enables us to perceive magnitude -- we can compare loudness when hearing different tones or compare the number of dots in a group at a glance. Neuroscientists have ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

The 2008 Abel Prize was awarded to John Griggs Thompson of the University of Florida and Jacques Tits of the Collège de France for their contributions to group theory, the mathematical field that ...

A recent study published in Nuclear Physics B examines how hidden dimensions might influence the physical reality that we ...