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 ...

Most people identify as male or female, but others don’t feel they fit into a fixed gender category. For instance, you or someone you know might feel somewhere “in-between” a man or a woman or beyond ...

Fans of esoteric number systems could delight in the Warriors’ Sunday night lineup, featuring five players whose jersey numbers were binary. There’s an old joke that goes — there are 10 kinds of ...

A new study has challenged a popular explanation for the unexpected 30-second shortening of Dimorphos's orbital period. The ...