There were more homeless people counted on the street and in cars or encampments at last month's annual Homeless Count than in the year prior. The street count rose 16 percent while the overall count ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime ...

The annual count of homeless people in the U.S. showed a record high, with more than 770,000 people living in shelters or outside early this year. U.S. homelessness numbers have gone up again to a ...

Here’s a game: Ask a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger. Just add “1” to whatever number they come up with and you’re sure to win. The reason is that numbers go on ...

A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...