Are odd numbers dominating our lives as Gregg Opelka writes in “The Odds Are Against Even Numbers” (op-ed, Dec. 26)? Well, we just enjoyed the 12 days of Christmas and will soon begin the election ...

Honey bees know nothing. Literally. Honey bees have previously demonstrated to scientists they understand the concept of zero by selecting dotted paper based on a reward of sweetened water. Eventually ...

PBS Kids' Odd Squad show attracts 70 million streams in January for it's weird and wonderful combination of oddness, kids in charge, gadgets and math. My kids usually have educational radar. Not that ...

Humans are so smart that we can easily learn the difference between even numbers and odd numbers. And until a new study emerged, humans believed we were the only species capable of this feat, known as ...

The article features an optical illusion challenge that tests math skills by requiring readers to spot an odd number among identical ones in under 7 seconds. It underscores the cognitive benefits of ...

As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with to this day. But he doesn’t feel bad: The problem that captivated him, ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

When you turn Shape A anticlockwise 90 degrees, it matches Shape B. When you turn Shape A clockwise 90 degrees, it matches Shape C. Hence, A = B = C which leaves D as the odd one out. When you rotate ...

Prove that, at a recent convention of biophysicists, the number of scientists in attendance who shook hands an odd number of times is even. The same problem can be expressed graphically as follows: ...