Binary is a number system that only uses two digits, \(0\) and \(1\). It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is ...

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

Astronomers from Keele University in the UK have utilized NASA's planet-hunting TESS telescope to investigate a ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

Many climate scientists call our current epoch the “Anthropocene” — the first human-driven climate era. Many technologists ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...

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