Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

The Great Lakes Science Center will host science, technology, engineering and mathematics programming in December and January ...

Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Everyone knows the number 3.14, at school it is something that is obligatory to learn and, subsequently, to know how to use.

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

A recent study reveals that decorative flower motifs on 8,000-year-old pottery from the Halafian culture demonstrate ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

More than 8,000 years ago, ancient farming communities in Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically, using art to ...

Mathematicians present the Nopertedro: a Rupert property solid that broke an old myth by preventing one copy from passing ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart ...