Telling your kid that you're not a number person can do some damage.

Airlines endlessly try to engineer procedures to speed up boarding and reduce costly delays. A scientist thinks he has the solution.

A discovery of a lifetime (at least for the math geeks among us): the largest prime number in the world.

Carbon nanotubes are thinner than a strand of hair and are being tested to power extremely small motors. The BBC reports: "Carbon nanotubes have…