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 ...

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 ...

Concerns over communities' Point-in-Time counts have persisted for years. Thousands of volunteers across the country spent a night in January canvassing their communities to look for people who may be ...

Asheville and Buncombe County's point in time count, an annual single-night census of its unhoused population, found 755 people experiencing homelessness. That total does not include the 1,548 people ...

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 ...