Researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany have new evidence suggesting crows can contemplate the number zero. This ability means the birds join an “elite” group of creatures that can ...

Some cultures are fixated on numbers. Others don’t even have words for numbers. And then there’s Bolivia’s Indigenous Tsimane’ community, which has members who can count indefinitely, and others who ...

The most important topic your child learns in Pre-K is developing the concept of number. The most important topic your child learns in Pre-K is developing the concept of number. You can help your ...

Neuroscientists discover brain processes which lead to the concept of “zero” on the number line. Zero is a magic number. It stands for emptiness, for nothing -- and yet it is considered one of the ...

understand the concept of zero and demonstrating self-control on a par with that of human children in patience tests. In an experiment in which crows were shown numbers and asked to make sounds, it ...

Math is famously divisive. Some people like to say they’re not “math people” if they have trouble with the subject (though, that might not actually be a healthy approach). Well, guess who have turned ...

Few things, to judge by his works, so fascinated William Shakespeare as the presence of absence: the lacuna where there ought to be abundance — of will, or judgment, or understanding. It looms large ...