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You want to pick the ‘favorites,’ to get accuracy points. But you also want to pick some ‘underdogs,’ to set yourself apart from the pack. Somewhere in the middle is an optimal solution.
A brokered convention just got more likely for the Republicans.
No wonder you’re always late. Drivers use a route that minimizes travel time on only a third of their trips. Here’s how real-world data can help planners fight traffic congestion.
The word may be new, but the first time the ‘birther’ political ploy was used was in the 1916 presidential elections.
Reliably predicting whether a tsunami is large enough to require evacuations requires many more observations from the deep ocean than we now have.
He was a former Democrat, a business tycoon and a media star. The story of Wendell Willkie, the Republicans’ surprise candidate in the 1940 election and how he disrupted the GOP.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
Debt is the reason jitters for emerging markets are now worse than during the Asian financial crisis.
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is a huge money-maker, but you wouldn’t know it from the coverage on TV.
Glamour labor is a phenomenon of the digital age, which is radically changing the way we think about work, success and privacy.
You’re not imagining it: the Supreme Court has gotten more polarized politically than in years past, thanks to fewer moderates in the Senate.
Simply filling out a bracket – even with random or uninformed choices – is enough to boost your confidence in success, and to get you to put more money on the line.
The days of teachers telling fidgety children to “sit still, sit up and pay attention” may be relegated to the history books. Squirming, wiggling and standing could help boost attention and focus.
We know pi appears when we talk about circles. But it appears in many other places, too. Why, pi, why?
Over five million students of the approximately 11 million students in community colleges nationwide suffer from a mental health problem.
A new study on inequality analyzes the impact of fiscal policy, dramatically altering the standard view of rich and poor in America. It may also change how voters and candidates think about the issue.
On the occasion of Pi Day, a look at the history of calculating the actual, and increasingly exact, value of pi (π).
What public opinion surveys reveal about changing attitudes toward the Supreme Court.
Our data-driven model was able to create a reasonably accurate assessment of justices’ views on issues, predict their alignments on cases and identify who might be a swing vote.
Modern agriculture is synonymous with monoculture. That lack of diversity is bad news for plants’ natural immune defenses. Researchers are figuring out how to help plants fend off microbes – without pesticides.
We’re on the cusp of being able to consistently launch and land rockets, greatly reducing the cost of space travel. But how long before there’s a Millennium Falcon in every garage?
Manufacturers have removed the industrial chemical BPA from many products over concerns that it mimics hormones in the body. Now studies show that BPS, a popular substitute, has similar effects.
A shortage of special education teachers is threatening states’ abilities to provide high quality education for students with disabilities. Changing teachers’ working conditions can help.
Do guns change the ways that people engage with each other? A gun violence researcher went to Missouri to find out.