Language shapes our thoughts—or does it? Decades of research on aphasia, the loss of language following brain injury, ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

Avi Wigderson, an award-winning computer scientist and mathematician, gave a lecture on “randomness” at Stony Brook ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...

In 1968 the California Supreme Court decides what was, for that court, a novel question: the place of mathematics in a criminal case. The case had originated four years earlier on the morning of ...

Only something someone who grew up in the early 2000s will understand doing certain things that seem weird to everyone else.

The pattern is clear: many of us still rely on simple words, easy number strings and familiar keyboard patterns.

Many grown adults struggle with some of the basic concepts they learned back in fifth grade. It's not that you’re not smart—it’s just that sometimes, life doesn’t require you to remember the specifics ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...

A small turn of phrase from Donald Trump has somehow taken on a life of its own, sparking fresh chatter about whether he’s really keeping […] ...