Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

Lee John Whittington, a philosopher who studied luck, didn’t think “unluckiness” was a quality people had. Then he met his ...

You can do fun things as well as programming and shell scripting. You can play games in the terminal. One collection of games, BSD games, is borrowed from games that were popular on one of Linux's ...

But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new territory every day. In this ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. A random variable is a number whose value is unknown and can be changed to evaluate an outcome, such as the future price of a ...

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat ...

Sometimes, there are things we know, but we don’t know, you know? Like: when you play the lottery, getting the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 is technically just as likely as any other selection of six ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has generated and certified so-called truly random numbers using a quantum computer, in a world-first that the bank hopes will have applications for security and trading.

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero ...

In the default model, the graph representing each individual enhancer can be arbitrarily complicated. To show how the ABC Score formula can arise from the default model, we need to impose the further ...