One commonly held belief among many investors and financial advisors is that the risk of certain asset classes, in particular equities, declines over longer investment periods, an effect commonly ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...

Quick! Think of a number between 1 and 10…was it 7? If it was, don't feel too bad, as human brains are notoriously bad at both true randomness and understanding probability. Even if you're too ...

A simple random sample is a subset of a statistical population where each member of the population is equally likely to be ...

If you've had two children of the same sex, you're more likely to have a third one of the same sex, according to a new study Getty A new study challenges the long-held belief that a baby’s sex is ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

It's a problem many Spotify users know all too well: no matter how many times a large playlist gets shuffled, it always seems to pick out the same handful of songs to play first. While some listeners ...

For decades, we’ve been urged to commit random acts of kindness. But in today’s ever busier, more stressful times, it might be of value to offer examples of such acts that take little time or effort.

The conflict of interest existed from the moment Tom Brady became both a Fox broadcaster and a minority owner of the Raiders. It finally became a focal point on Monday night, when ESPN cameras showed ...

What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy? The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the long-sought theory of quantum gravity. But what if this theory is as ...