An old Chinese proverb says “It is better to break one finger than to injure ten." It reveals a lot about "free trade" versus ...

Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have ...

The University of California San Diego has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do ...

Three days after the Pentagon denied it killed two survivors after an attack on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in early ...

Saylor’s alchemy has now started to give way to arithmetic. Absent a turnaround in the bitcoin price, the “infinite money ...

New America Senior Fellow Peter W. Singer writes on the costs on the growing costs of America's approach to war compared to ...

Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238. “Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a ...

Randolph Grace receives funding from the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of ...