Alexandria, Minn.-based Alomere Health will move forward with plans to convert from a county-owned hospital to a nonprofit after its board of directors voted unanimously to recommend the change. The ...

A seemingly simple primary school maths question has left hundreds of adults scratching their heads. The game show question, which was featured on the ITV program The 1% Club, has caused widespread ...

The NFL used its new virtual measurement system technology to check the line to gain at the Pro Football Hall of Fame game between the LA Chargers and Detroit Lions on Thursday. The technology was ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

I’m a zero at mental arithmetic. It’s true—I struggle with this skill—but I want to focus on the phrase itself. In our language, we often equate zero with something negative. But zero is the only real ...

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency wants to combine your Social Security number into a massive multi-agency federal database, which could violate current law and disrupt ...

For centuries the decimal number system reigned supreme, except, perhaps, among the Mayan Indians, until the advent of digital computers brought the binary and octal systems into the limelight. This ...

Most families waiting for shelter in Massachusetts are now longtime residents — not recent migrants. In this file photo, Venezuelan migrants wait at a Chelsea social services organization, La ...

Binary is the number system all digital computers are based on. Therefore it's important for developers to understand binary, or base 2, mathematics. The purpose of Bin2Dec is to provide practice and ...

It’s been a key question since London police fatally shot a Laurel County man late on Dec. 23: How did officers end up at the home of the man, who has not been identified as a suspect in the ...