Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

DePauw University is installing a new, standardized building numbering system across campus to help police and firefighters quickly locate buildings during emergencies. The project is led by the ...

When fans settled into Knights of Columbus Stadium in East Orange, New Jersey, back in 1929 to watch their new NFL team in action, it was easy for them to pick out their favorite players. But it ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

A high-stakes technology race is playing out in the human brain. Brain-computer interfaces are already letting people with paralysis control computers and communicate their needs, and will soon enable ...

Announcing computer use in Copilot Studio! This new feature allows your Copilot Studio agents to interact directly with websites and desktop applications. Want to join the limited preview? Read on.

Scottish author and historian William Dalrymple used the India Today Conclave 2025 stage to unravel the history of numbers, according to him. He said that the history and the journey of mathematical ...

Earlier this year, the technology world welcomed back a long-lost friend. ELIZA, the world’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, had wowed the computer scientists of the mid-1960s with its ability ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...