Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like ...

Researchers are trying to understand how much humans know innately, and what they have to learn. So far, their findings hint at something remarkable: From the day they are born, at some level, babies ...

This article originally appeared on Fatherly: The first rule of performing cognitive experiments on little kids? It’s probably best to call them something else. Using “experiments” and “little kids” ...

This is part of a series of essays during the COVID-19 pandemic designed to help journalists and all public writers achieve what I have been calling “civic clarity.” That quality in prose comes from ...

A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...