This week, a betting puzzle involving Word Cup football, and a mistake made by John Keats.

The 2026 men's NCAA tournament is rapidly approaching, which means it's time to turn our attention to the biggest burning ...

Editor’s note: Previous versions of the simulation were incorrectly calculating each team’s odds of reaching the conference finals and beyond. That error has been ...

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Let's just say they're measured in quintillions. That's a number followed by 18 zeroes.

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...

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Decision-making inherently involves cause–effect relationships that introduce causal challenges. We argue that reliable algorithms for decision-making need to build upon causal reasoning. Addressing ...