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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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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But researchers say data based on analogue phone usage may not yield same results as digital phone usage.
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Scientists have explained mathematically why the famous &quot;silly walks&quot; of Monty Python&#39;s John Cleese have never caught on in the long history of Homo sapiens.
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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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The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.
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Robust research doesn't guarantee success, but Pedro Zuloaga insists it stacks your odds.
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Figures taking pupils' socio-economic backgrounds into consideration are misleading, say researchers
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In some corners, popular belief holds that science and religion are incompatible, but scientists may be just as likely to believe in God as other people, according to surveys.
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One of the toughest problems in maths may have been solved, British Association's Festival of Science is told.
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But neither he nor his colleagues have unlocked the mystery that could help them predict events like last weekend&#39;s catastrophic earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.
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A concept abandoned in the 19th century is being revived by a physicist as an alternative to dark matter, despite recent announcements of proof of the theoretical substance.
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Numbers don't lie &#151; or do they? When it comes to public health, figures are seldom straightforward.
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Maths is processed independently of language, according to new research published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
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The "doom and gloom" being spread about the state of UK physics is inaccurate, says research chief Keith Mason.
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Not being part of a culture with a highly developed language, could limit your thoughts, at least as far as numbers are concerned, reveals a new study conducted by a psychologist at the Columbia University in New York.
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There is a distinction between the layman&#39;s use of the term theory and the word&#39;s meaning in the scientific world. That distinction seems lost in Cobb County, where thousands of dollars have been spent as