The street name ʻEhā translates as the number “four” or “four times,” but it could vary depending on spelling and pronunciation. Counting in the Hawaiian language, or ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, can seem ...

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 ...

The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown. Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, “Three ...