Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said that "basic arithmetic" assures the legislative filibuster -- a 60-vote procedural hurdle for bills in the upper chamber -- remains safe for the ...

Expanding our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power, researchers discover that bees can do basic arithmetic Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a ...

New Village, a nonprofit public high school that enrolls "at-risk" young women in Los Angeles, was awarded more than $250,000 and granted its petition to receive supplemental funding from the ...

In a discovery that could have implications for the development of artificial intelligence, researchers at RMIT in Australia and the University of Toulouse in France have found that bees can do basic ...

Pulling off this get-rich scheme was perfectly legal, very cunning — and really not all that hard. A retired Michigan couple won $26 million playing the lottery by using “basic arithmetic.” It all ...

Scientists have found that the strength of communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain predicts performance on basic arithmetic problems. The findings shed light on the neural ...

For novices, functions are one of the most intimidating features of OpenOffice.org's Calc. Newcomers quickly learn that functions are a main feature of spreadsheets, but there are almost four hundred, ...

New research provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very basic single digit arithmetic (5+2=7 or 7-3=4) are better equipped to score higher on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude ...

Richard Elwes reports on Harvey Friedman’s fascinating work on incompleteness in Boolean relation theory, but it is quite a stretch to extend his work to ask “are the rules of arithmetic… unsound?” ...