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

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

The authors used a Bayesian modeling framework to fit behavior and serotonin neuron activity to reward history across multiple timescales. A key goal was to distinguish value coding from other ...

Only one star cluster currently known matches the criteria we would expect for the long-sought Population III stars, three ...