Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction. Now studies show that the concept of zero is processed in similar ways to many numbers and can be situated ...

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?

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 ...