Scientist says numeracy theories don&#39;t add up
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Language moulds our thoughts so much that we cannot conceptualise ideas for which we do not have words, according to an American researcher.
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A British chemist bases his table on the established atomic weight of each element. He doesn't get everything right, but he's in the ballpark.
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Sorry, Senator, but the numbers don't add up.
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Fools can draw too many conclusions from too little data.
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The world&#39;s chief climate scientist on Tuesday disputed the US government contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to check global warming.
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Children who had never been taught addition or subtraction were able to solve approximate math problems involving large numbers, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that reveals a new understanding of children's innate math ability.
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How many people have gotten home after a blindingly stressful day and realize they&#39;ve forgotten something important? Well, now at least there&#39;s a scientific explanation for the oversight.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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SOUTH Australia&#39;s students have shown improvement in an international science and mathematics study last held a decade ago, and defied a national trend.
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A U.S. physicist says he's disproved a 50-year-old theory that composites must be composed of only stable materials to be stable overall.
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A top scientist in the storied, sometimes controversial field explains how a population of creatures can be viewed as a high-level organism unto itself rather than a collection of disparate individuals.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- An overall increase of 1 percentage point in graduation rates might not seem significant. NCAA president Myles Brand disagrees.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]
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NEW YORK  - The length of children's fingers may hint at their natural abilities in math and language, a new study suggests.
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ATLANTA - Mathematical errors may have caused scientists to inflate the number of obesity-related deaths in the US, health officials said Tuesday.
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Some people have a great excuse for being bad at math -- their language lacks the words for most numbers, US-based researchers reported on Thursday.
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A science expert says the Tomlinson report misses a chance to have all students study scientific thought.