But according to a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some monkeys may ...

The study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young humans.

*Originally published on May 11, 2022. Give Jordan Ellenberg a number and he'll tell you its square root. It's a party trick he used to do in college. The mathematician is a child prodigy. He scored a ...

Summary: A research team demonstrated that non-human primates (olive baboons and Rhesus macaques), young human children, and ...

Neuroscientists are exploring whether shapes like squares and rectangles — and our ability to recognize them — are part of what makes our species special. Credit...Video by Yoshi Sodeoka Supported by ...

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...