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 ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lies a profound space between what science can explain and what's left to our imaginations. As a result, humans have spent centuries spinning tales of enormous ...

People often believe the ability to think abstractly is distinctly human, but a new study in mallard ducklings shows otherwise. The baby fowl can decipher abstract relationships between shapes and ...

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