There was a time when any electronics student would have a slide rule hanging off their belt. By the 1970s, the slide rule changed over to an electronic calculator which was a pricy item. Today you ...

A 14-year-old Indian math prodigy known as the "Human Calculator" says yoga meditation keeps his brain nimble. Aaryan Shukla, of Maharashtra, India, recently broke six world records in math in one day ...

If you’re wondering about your odds of a having heart attack, or perhaps when it might hit, an online calculator developed by the Joint British Societies may be able to tell you. In a new study out ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum. Our series on the birth of the transistor — and with it, the ...

They long ago outlived every phone, calculator and computer of their generation. These days, you’ll still see them prominently displayed on the desks of many certified financial planners. But if you ...

Paranoid accountants rejoice! You may now buy calculators with hidden, motion-activated cameras in them, saving low-def video to internally-housed SD cards. The idea looks goofy, but is ...

A new working model of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator reveals the sophistication and precision of mathematics, astronomy and engineering in the ancient world. A new working model of the ...

When I started as a TA, some pre-calc courses were using graphing calculators to “teach” graphing. Thankfully I never had to deal with that as I strongly felt that using a calculator to graph stuff ...

You're only as old as you feel, goes the saying. Science now has another way of putting it: Chronological age is bunk. For a newly published study, Duke University researchers tracked "multiple ...