Numbers, please! 110 celestial objects in the Messier catalog The Messier catalog, popular with amateur astronomers, was actually just a by-product of comet hunting. The aim was to avoid confusion.

You often have to make quick judgments about the number of objects you encounter in the world. You might see a group of people walking toward you. It is useful to know whether there are roughly ...

JavaScript variables hold a wide variety of information and can be used with virtually any data type. Here's how to use variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and more.

Some researchers have thus speculated that there are two different processing methods in the brain – a precise one for small numbers and an estimation mechanism for larger numbers of things. “However, ...

Measure 114 calls for a permit to buy a gun, bans the sale, transfer and manufacture of magazines holding more than 10 rounds and requires a completed criminal background check before any sale or ...

A record number of "foreign objects" have been left inside patients' bodies after surgery, new data reveals. Incidents analysed by the PA news agency showed it happened a total of 291 times in 2021/22 ...

A RECORD number of foreign objects left inside patients after an operation or procedure is being logged by hospitals, according to new data analysis. Such blunders led to a record 291 finished ...