Researchers have discovered that specific neurons in the brain treat zero as a full-fledged number. But what exactly happens ...

How does the human brain react to this abstract idea? Researchers have discovered that specific neurons in the brain treat zero as a full-fledged number. But what exactly happens inside our head?

Many mathematical equations can only be solved thanks to a special human invention: the number zero. In many ways, it is a strange concept. It’s a quantity, defined by absence. It also emerged ...

Numbers don't just stop at zero. When you count backwards from zero, you go into negative numbers. Positive numbers are more than zero: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Negative ...

For the Mesopotamians, though, zero did not exist on a number line, the way we think of it. Without the zero, for their part, the Greeks had resorted to a dot for a placeholder. And the dot proved ...