Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...

Some philosophers believe hope creates unsolvable logical contradictions. Not hope for unlikely things like winning the lottery, but any hope at all. Hope for sunny weather tomorrow? Logically ...

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A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

GE Healthcare’s Sarah Tilkens doesn’t have a background in manufacturing. What she does have is a curious, questioning nature. “I’m an experimenter,” says the senior manager of operational excellence ...

Happy Wednesday! Send news tips to: [email protected]. Google’s AI search problem may never be fully solved. It’s not uncommon for an exciting new tech feature to debut with some bugs. But at ...