In cognitive tests for recognizing certain types of patterns, crows outperformed monkeys. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Crows ...

** This episode was originally published on June 20, 2019. It runs across cultures, through science, mathematics and art. It's as common as the branches on a tree or the layers of a Russian doll — but ...

Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. Simple, yes, but ...

An aptitude for mentally stringing together related items, often cited as a hallmark of human language, may have deep roots in primate evolution, a new study suggests. But “this work shows that the ...