ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract ...

I once suggested that monotheism and codified law, two features of Western culture absent in China, led to a notion of universal law, which influenced the development of abstract science in ancient ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

Anyone who has ever written anything online is familiar with stock imagery. It's thanks to sites like Shutterstock, Pixabay, and Pexels that writers can source pictures for their articles without ...

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Researchers have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts, like justice, ethics and consciousness, ...

The Abstract Science Team, from left: Henry Self, Chris Widman, Luke Stokes, and Joshua P. Ferguson. Credit: Kathleen Kazimir At 10 AM on Thursday, July 6, Chris Widman, Henry Self, Luke Stokes, and ...

TO SOME there is nothing so urgent that it cannot be postponed in favour of a cup of tea. Such procrastination is a mystery to psychologists, who wonder why people would sabotage themselves in this ...