You all know the score. A train leaves one city travelling at 35 miles per hour and another races toward it at 25 miles an hour from a city 60 miles away. How long do they take to meet in the middle?

A new study locates the brain's symbolic engine for compositional generalization within the ventral premotor cortex.

Frustrated maths students may have a good excuse. Some teaching methods meant to make maths more relevant may be making it harder to understand, US researchers say. They say students who are taught ...

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