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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The longevity of Jobs’ 10-minute design session suggests the approach worked. The calculator survived nearly two decades of ...

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

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Science has long been associated with regulation, bureaucracy and bad business. But as advancements in science continue, we are realizing that this is not absolute. To look at this more in depth, ...

It’s a well-worn adage of the Internet age: people often aren’t what they seem to be online. But until recently, you could at least be assured that they were people. Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new ...