The fast and accurate quantification of small numbers of elements, called subitizing, has been explained by assuming either a limited capacity for immediate apprehension of numerosity, a fast ...

While honeybees might not take home any math awards, new research reveals the social insects can grasp numbers, telling the difference between two, three and four dots. Higher than that, the bees' ...

Women are quicker than men at carrying out a primitive, "instant judgment" type of maths, according to the world's largest mathematics experiment. In the past few years scientists have found that bees ...