If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Thank you for the article “Math: the Not-So-Universal Language,” (July 13, 2005), which relates how some schools are using innovative strategies to teach math to students with limited English ...

Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language ...

Humans have been scouring the sky for alien life for centuries, and we’ve had, let’s face it, little success. Proposed ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...

Scarlett Howard received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship and is currently funded by the Fyssen Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the ...

Communication with non-intelligent entities has nearly been impossible for humans. However, a group of Australian scientists ...