The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

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While retrieval-augmented generation is effective for simpler queries, advanced reasoning questions require deeper connections between information that exist across documents. They require a knowledge ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...

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We may never know why it occurred to Donald Trump or someone with access to his Truth Social account to post a graph about immigration at 2:20 a.m. Fox News was re-airing Sean Hannity’s show during ...

Bullying is a form of aggressive, potentially violent behavior. Bullying can occur at school, online, in the workplace, or at home. It can also be grounded in prejudice. Bullying is an aggressive ...