Many animals, including humans, frequently face the task of getting from one place to another. Although many navigational strategies exist, all vertebrate species readily use geometric cues; things ...

This cuneiform tablet may re-write the history of math and astronomy. Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu Ossendrijver As one of the brightest objects in the night sky, the planet Jupiter has been ...

Analysis of ancient Babylonian tablets reveals that, to calculate the position of Jupiter, the tablets' makers used geometry, a technique scientists previously believed humans had not developed until ...