ASHEVILLE - The city’s latest homelessness count numbers are in. But this year, the point in time data was revealed in two sets: the first showed a modest increase in the total from the year before, ...

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 ...

An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty—a hallmark of our intelligence that, along with language, sets us apart from all other animals. Practically every animal that ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

IN ecological work it is often necessary to have comparative estimates of the numbers of organisms in a large number of samples. An exact valuation may not be required, but an approximate numerical ...