The study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young humans.

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman ...

All human beings may have the ability to understand elementary geometry, independently of their culture or their level of education. In a spherical universe, researchers found that Amazonian Indians ...

But according to a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some monkeys may ...

Testing 79 adults from Bolivia’s indigenous Tsimane’ farmer-forager population, who do not undergo formal U.S.-style ...

Psychologist Véronique Izard discusses a study that suggests Amazonian villagers with no math schooling are just as equipped to solve basic geometry problems as math-trained adults, and cognitive ...

Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time, using sophisticated geometric techniques that until now had been considered an achievement of medieval European scholars. That is the ...

Some captive elephants create paintings or even smash and consume giant pumpkins in Halloween kickoff events, but what about their mathematical abilities? Three Asian elephants named Artit (a ...

The drive to get every student to take so-called college gateway courses has succeeded, a new federal study finds, but students taking Algebra 1 and Geometry classes are getting considerably less ...