Authai the Asian elephant is no Dumbo. She can’t fly, but she can do math. At the Ueno Zoo in Japan, scientists successfully taught the 14-year-old pachyderm to compare numerical quantities using a ...

When the arithmetic-performing celebrity horse Clever Hans was exposed as a phony in 1907, we lost faith in the math skills of our animal kin. But new research shows Clever Hans’ owner should have ...

Giraffes that can do math? Elephant seals that are shortening their life spans with sex? And what can Neanderthal man tell us about our noses? As always the truth is stranger than fiction when it ...

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If it wasn’t the human stick challenge, then it had to be the elephant toothpaste that Tozer Primary School students couldn’t wait to get their hands on Wednesday after school. Or maybe it was the ...

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think” – a quote by Margaret Meed, rightfully sums up the current issue that pertains to the world education system. It’s a mystery how the world ...