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 ...

In the Aug. 30 issue of The Loop newspaper I wrote about super accurate atomic clocks for space travel and said to think of ...

Just using simple geometric ideas, Indian mathematicians estimated the height of Mount Everest which was its official height until recently.