Arithmetic has a biological origin: It's an expression in symbols of the 'deep structure' of our perception
Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4.
Mathematics
Aug 15, 2023
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News tagged with ancient greeks
A hymn to the stars: What happens when science puts the universe into music?
A little over six months ago, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delivered its first photographs, dazzling the world as it revealed the cosmos in glorious technicolor. The first picture transmitted in July showed a ...
Astronomy
Jan 26, 2023
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We could spread life to the Milky Way with comets. But should we?
Here's a thorny problem: What if life doesn't always appear on planets that can support it? What if we find more and more exoplanets and determine that some of them are habitable? What if we also determine that life hasn't ...
Astrobiology
Dec 21, 2022
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Why the discovery of Cleopatra's tomb would rewrite history
It couldn't have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to have been made in Egypt. ...
Archaeology
Nov 16, 2022
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US returns smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya
The United States on Thursday returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya as the oil-rich Mediterranean country struggles to protect its heritage against the backdrop of years of war, turmoil and unrest.
Archaeology
Mar 31, 2022
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Pi day: A brief history of our fascination with this magical number, from pies to 'piems'
Imagine a cup of tea. Wrap a piece of string around the circumference of the cup, and measure the length of the string. Then, lay your spoon on top of the cup, making sure it lies across the center of the cup, and measure ...
Mathematics
Mar 14, 2022
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How did ancient civilizations make sense of the cosmos, and what did they get right?
In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the wreck of an ancient Roman ship loaded with treasure that had sunk more than 2,000 years earlier off the remote ...
Astronomy
Mar 7, 2022
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To navigate the heavens, take a seat
Students and visitors have undoubtedly wondered about the peculiar, spherical sculpture on the rooftop of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. With its giant metallic rails looping around a chair, the sculpture ...
Astronomy
Feb 18, 2022
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Winged Gods and walking griffons: A plate with a depiction of Scythian Gods has been found in Middle Don
Expedition members of IA RAS have found a unique plate depicting winged Scythian gods surrounded by griffons during their excavations of the burial ground Devitsa V in Ostrogozhsky District of Voronezh region. This is the ...
Archaeology
Nov 19, 2021
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'Ancestor' of Mediterranean mosaics discovered in Turkey
The discovery of a 3,500-year-old paving stone, described as the "ancestor" of Mediterranean mosaics, offers illuminating details into the daily lives of the mysterious Bronze Age Hittites.
Archaeology
Sep 26, 2021
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