Some 60,000 years ago, in what is now western France, a Neanderthal picked up a chunk of hyena femur and a stone tool and began to work. When the task was complete, the bone bore nine notches that ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

"Understanding neural mechanisms, both in humans and across species, gives us insights into both how our brains evolved over time," said one of the study's authors Dogs might not know what W-A-L-K ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Korean is a very intriguing language and with the popularity of the BTS fandom and K-dramas, people are even more keen to learn Korean. Korean has become one of the fastest-growing languages in India ...

Learn how to spell your name, practice skip counting, and explore animal movements and diets. Welcome back to Room 9! Today, you’ll learn how to spell your name with Glen, practice skip counting by 2s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...

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