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

Speaker: Not all numbers are whole numbers. Decimals are numbers that are between two whole numbers. So 1.4 is between 1 and 2. A decimal that starts with a 0 before the decimal point is less than 1.

Everyone was amazed when calculators shrunk to the pocketable size decades ago. Literally amazed, but things are even better now. These days you practically have an Android device that fits in your ...

Stian Lydersen, PhD, professor of medical statistics at the Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and ...

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...

After no grand prize winner from the Tuesday, Oct. 14 drawing, the Mega Millions jackpot for Friday, Oct. 17 is up to $625 million with a cash value of $288.8 million. Ready to try your luck with Mega ...

UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...

Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers are off to a fast start with one another. Entering Week 7's Thursday Night Football matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals, the Steelers are 4-1 (having already ...

The Powerball lottery jackpot was an estimated $295 million with a cash option of $140.3 million for Saturday night's drawing. There was no jackpot winner so the Powerball will increase to an ...

Saturday marks the 14th matchup between these two NUs since Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011. The series has been even, with the Huskers winning seven games to the Wildcats’ six. Most of their ...

A Michigan woman's decision to ask artificial intelligence for help has paid off in spectacular fashion - with a $100,000 Powerball win. Tammy Carvey, 45, of Wyandotte near Detroit, struck gold in the ...