A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with ...

Lotto is a game of chance, but can strategy also come into play? We asked statisticians and looked at the data to find out how to win Powerball. Powerball is all luck—jackpot odds are 1 in 292 million ...

Even the most modern random number generators do not produce perfectly random numbers, which can be a problem for cryptographic applications. ETH Zurich researchers use entangled superconducting ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Editor's note: Austin police released more details about the suspects, as well as a timeline of events in the latest update. Three suspects have been taken into custody following ...

Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s books include “American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It” and “Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People.” In Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 play “The ...

When I see a call coming in from a number I don’t recognize, my first instinct is to ignore it. But since I have kids, I need to pick up that phone call if it's from my area code in the off chance ...

The radio signal first started broadcasting on February 28, about 12 hours after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran. On a scratchy shortwave signal almost twice a day -- in the early ...

Shopping for a printer largely boils down to choosing between inkjet and laser. Both put text and images onto paper, which seems straightforward enough, but they differ in how they do it. Which you ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t be said when we’re asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it’s 144).