Quantifying things is an overarching goal in science, but recent events have left me pondering just why that is. After all, we've long known that numbers can be precise but inaccurate. The textbook ...

Small numbers are processed in the right side of the brain, while large numbers are processed in the left side of the brain, new research suggests. Small numbers are processed in the right side of the ...

When two, three or four apples are placed in front of us, we are able to recognize the number of apples very quickly. However, we need significantly more time if there are five or more apples and we ...

Women have a better instinct for small numbers than men, hints a new counting study. In a maths test based at a science museum, female volunteers recognized one to four dots more quickly than males ...

It's no secret that big business dominates the battlefield. Yet, as the Army turns its focus to an agile force, able to deploy on short notice to locations anywhere in the world--all while staying ...

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, ...