Board games boost youngsters' maths skills, according to new research. Children learn to count as they move pieces along a numbered path in games such as snakes and ladders, say scientists. The study ...

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A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...