A family in Florida is suing a local hospital after they say their 2-year-old son was accidentally given a fatal dose of ...

A two-year-old boy arrives at the hospital with a virus and low potassium. His family expect monitoring, fluids, and a ...

A 2-year-old boy died in a Florida hospital after a doctor negligently deleted a decimal point in his prescription, resulting ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to math historian Glen Van Brummelen about his finding that the decimal point appeared in the 1440s, earlier than thought. How did the decimal point come to be? - the dot that ...

A Florida mother is suing the University of Florida Health system after her 2-year-old son died from what she alleges ...

This decimal clock was made by Pierre Daniel Destigny in Rouen, France, between 1798 and 1805. | DeFacto, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 Everybody knows that there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...

Knowing what the odds on a bet mean is sports betting 101. Odds are not uniform. There are three main systems of odds. American odds, fractional odds and decimal odds. You can read more about American ...