Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the ...

The unique geometric understanding of humans has been attributed to an evolutionary divide in symbolic cognition that distinguishes us from monkeys. We investigated how monkeys, preschoolers, and ...

Watering your lawn in the summer can be both pragmatic and fun with so-called “silly sprinklers,” designed to create amusing loops and spirals of water jets. And there’s some fascinating physics at ...

Creating a schedule for ping-pong practice where "everyone can play against every other member equally without overlap" is surprisingly brain-teasing, like a puzzle. In fact, this can be solved ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and time around with it in a perpetual swirl. This phenomenon is known as frame ...

The San Diego Padres sit at 42-37 after sweeping Atlanta on Wednesday. They are still roughly nine games behind a Dodgers club playing at a 100-plus-win pace. The easy reaction is to start sweating ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce don’t want anything but rosé flowing with their chosen families. As rumors continue to fly about the couple’s upcoming nuptials, their pal George Kittle revealed the one ...

Right off the bat, let’s give a shout out to the mathematician propeller-heads who create the transformations that make it possible to do all kinds of high performance computing to simulate, model, ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

A student checks lasers for an experimentation during a visit of France's President and King of the Netherlands at the experimental quantum physics laboratory of the University of Amsterdam before ...