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 ...

Dawn Heywood, the senior collections development officer at Lincoln Museum, said the object had helped to boost visitor numbers by about 27 per cent, from about 5,100 in the same period last year.

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 ...

Edward Snowden has said the recently downed flying objects over the United States and Canada were not aliens.. What Happened: Snowden, a former U.S. intelligence contractor wanted for leaking ...

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 ...