Math phobes are wrong! Mathematics is just a language, and language is only a habit of thought. -- E.O. Wilson, in his latest book, "The Creation" 2006 If you lie down at the base of a tree and look ...

Unassuming plants don’t seem to occupy a high intellectual sphere, but it turns out they may be better at math than many humans. According to new research, plants perform complex arithmetic ...

It's really thrilling and awe-inducing to watch a carnivorous plant perform its special ability. These special plant species have evolved over time. Because they live on soil devoid of nutrients, they ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

British scientists just realized plants do math to mete out their food overnight so they don’t starve. (It’s kind of like how you try to save at least ONE crummy bottle of wine for later in the party.

As if making food from light were not impressive enough, it may be time to add another advanced skill to the botanical repertoire: the ability to perform — at least at the molecular level — arithmetic ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...

From the outside looking in, a fall semester Operations Research class looked just like any other—math and science students gazing intently into the faces of their computers, quietly puzzling over how ...

EAST HARTFORD — Behind Pitkin School in three planting boxes sit rows of cucumbers, tomatoes, peas, cilantro, lettuce and parsley. It’s a little crowded and a little imperfect, Principal Jennifer ...

Fascinating new research reveals that plants perform careful arithmetic to ensure they don't starve overnight. To understand how plants are capable of performing basic division (trumping both third ...