Researchers in France and at Harvard University have found that isolated indigenous peoples deep in the Amazon readily grasp basic concepts of geometry such as points, lines, parallelism and right ...

VO: Ambrose is an apprentice pizza maker at the world famous Grecian Pizza Parlour.He’s taking his new job very seriously. He’s even come in early today, before the pizza parlour is open. It looks ...

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*Originally published on May 11, 2022. Give Jordan Ellenberg a number and he'll tell you its square root. It's a party trick he used to do in college. The mathematician is a child prodigy. He scored a ...

Taken from the December 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "The shape of things". Later chapters explore more recent topics such as artificial intelligence and – ...

You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...