Calling a friend "cousin" might not be just a term of affection among some African Americans. Now, a mathematical model shows that there is a good chance there is some type of family connection ...

We've been watching temperatures climb, extreme weather events intensify, and ice sheets shrink. Every weather forecast and climate projection relies on incredibly complex computer simulations that ...

Here's a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered considerable interest among researchers. The debate around the use of machine ...

Risk prediction has been used in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease for >3 decades. Contemporary cardiovascular risk assessment relies on multivariable models, which integrate ...

Top artificial intelligence systems now ace many textbook-style math questions, yet they still fall apart on genuinely new ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. Despite near-perfect exam scores, large language models falter when real people rely on them for ...

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 ...