Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might ...

The Calculator app on your iPhone (and iPad) is capable of a host of numeric maneuvers. Beyond performing basic and complex calculations, it can handle complicated scientific equations and convert ...

Marjorie Rice, a homemaker from San Diego, solved a decades-old geometry problem in 1975. Her discovery of new pentagon ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head.

This video is part of “Innovations In: RSV," an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from MSD, Sanofi and AstraZeneca. Zachary Rubin: Holy cow, folks. We’re ...

The longevity of Jobs’s ten-minute design session suggests the approach worked. The calculator survived nearly two decades of ...