We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the numbers add up into atoms and stars and gravity.

Young children can crudely add and subtract numbers before they have learned the rules of arithmetic, a new study finds. Researchers presented five- and six-year-old children with problems such as ...

A book-length thought experiment uses math to investigate some of life’s big questions.