ON Thursday evening, May 4, the first “James Forrest” Lecture was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Dr. William Anderson, F.R.S. The subject was “the interdependence of abstract ...

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Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lies a profound space between what science can explain and what's left to our imaginations. As a result, humans have spent centuries spinning tales of enormous ...

THE issue of the two index numbers of vols. 39 of Science Abstracts for 1936 enables a comparison to be made with previous volumes. The physics volume includes 5,716 abstracts covering 1,332 pages, ...

People often believe the ability to think abstractly is distinctly human, but a new study in mallard ducklings shows otherwise. The baby fowl can decipher abstract relationships between shapes and ...