Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as, ...

Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern ...

The mathematical mind does not take weekends off. It is a way of looking at the world — its shapes, its patterns, its tendencies — that finds expression just as readily on a sleepy Sunday as any other ...

Most experts recommend getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night — so why do we sometimes get a full night’s rest and still wake up feeling tired? It may have something to do with the point in the ...