Biblical numbers are a little like the relatives at a family wedding—everyone has heard stories about them, nobody fully ...

Aldeman: New York City families have a wide variety of district and charter schools where literacy rates are soaring despite their poverty levels ...

👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! In a scene that brings new meaning to “scattered, smothered and covered,” French fries and onions washed up on a beach in England. Volunteers helped clean up the mess after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halafian pottery from an excavation at Arpachiyah, Iraq - Yosef Garfinkel Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

In 2012, a student at Cambridge University identified what he suspected was an ancient Greek star map hidden behind text in a medieval codex. Compiled with astronomical data from the 2nd century AD, ...

1. You trained deeply in Indian classical music. Few people expect that journey to lead to math education. When did you first realize that music wouldn’t be your only life’s work? a. Music shaped me ...

Long before GPS, satellite images or even written directions, humans faced a simple but serious problem: how do you remember where things are? Where is the rive ...