Imagine working from 9am to 11pm every single day. That’s what hawkers Rick Koh, 63, and Kristel Gan, 56, do at their stall ...

Nate Silver laid out his theories about Las Vegas’ woes in a Dec. 21 post to his Silver Bulletin Substack blog. Silver is a statistician, sports gambler and poker player famed for his election ...

We used to worry about Hollywood. Now, every kid with a smartphone can access gambling, hardcore porn, and drugs.

Analyzing stochastic cell-to-cell variability can potentially reveal causal interactions in gene regulatory networks.

Maybe Dan Campbell knows the right Detroit Lions for a playoff push. He just doesn't have enough of them, not this season, at least.

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

Each week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area with a funeral notice and online tribute page. To read the ...

Designer Virginia Sin re-launched her Porcelain Paper Plate, first released in 2007, with a celebratory dinner in Brooklyn. The plate, an everlasting tribute to family-style meals and cherished ...

A frustrated parent has turned to the internet after their 9-year-old son's math homework was marked incorrect—even though, at least to many readers, his answers appear to be right. Posted in the ...