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 ...

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 ...