For millions of people, numbers can feel like a foreign language. Scientists are uncovering why. Plus: math without fear, more sleep for better grades, AI deepfakes, and bots talking to bots. In ...

The last week has brought the largest resurgence of election denialism since the aftermath of the 2020 election. Many on the right have cried foul over late shifts toward Democrats in results from ...

In January of 2024, the SciFri Book Club read “An Immense World” by Ed Yong. Luckily, there is also a young readers edition, so you can explore these incredible sensory worlds as well! In this book, ...

America’s monthly jobs reports continue showing strong hiring numbers — but a growing amount of data suggests the labor market may be far weaker than the headlines imply. This breakdown explores why ...

Traditionally, humans are said to have five senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. But what if there is a sixth sense? Although extrasensory perception (ESP) is often proffered as the sixth ...

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month ...

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...

When a kindergartner is asked to solve the equation 7 + 6, the numbers alone don’t always make clear what they’re being asked to do: determine what number is six numbers greater than seven. To figure ...

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Hundreds of U.S. Special Operations Forces, including Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, are now in the Middle East, as well as thousands of Marines and Army paratroopers, according to sources familiar with ...

This nine-digit number identifies your bank or credit union in a financial transaction. Routing numbers are nine-digit codes that identify banks or credit unions in financial transactions. The codes ...