A Moment of Science
I'm not a math person. Anytime I have to deal with numbers, let alone solve an actual math problem ‑‑ which, thankfully, is not often ‑‑ it's almost painful.
New research shows it's high time to trash the long-held notion that women are biologically determined to be worse than men at math.
Do you struggle with math? Well, all you may need is a little shock to the brain.
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When a swarm of locusts hits, it devastates everything in its path. It would be helpful to know when they are coming... but scientists say no such luck.
Why are raindrops different sizes when they fall from the sky?
Does a recess really help people learn? Find out in today's A Moment of Science.
The closer that numbers presented to us are, the longer it takes us to compare them. This suggests that we solve such problems with a mental number line.
The largest prime number so far discovered is 7,816,230 digits long!
For decades, mathematical ecologists struggling to formulate equations that accurately describe the relationship between predator and prey have come up against the following paradox: if the predators are too successful, the prey population dies out, and then the predators end up starving.
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