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

LUDINGTON, MI – This high-energy street party is a top five New Year’s Eve ball drop in the country. The Ludington celebration offers something for everyone with an outdoor beer garden, music, ...

After consternation about whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates for a third time this year, the consensus is that the central bank will likely go ahead with a 25 basis point cut on ...

In Olympic and Paralympic sports this weekend, reigning world champions Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu and Madison Chock and Evan Bates claimed titles at the Grand Prix Final, the most prestigious ...

During a dinner event several months ago at the American Cornerstone Institute, Donald Trump displayed his mediocre math skills as he failed to understand how percentages work, claiming that he will ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

Driving my daughter to school, we were discussing a classic probability question: “What are the odds a 4‑digit license plate has at least one repeated digit?” Listing cases gets messy fast (first two ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Embark Studios is clearly keen to keep building on the success of its latest game, Arc Raiders. The extraction shooter, which just launched to the ...

President Donald Trump uses a lot of inaccurate numbers. Sometimes, like on Thursday, he uses a bunch of them in rapid succession. At a White House event at which he announced sharply reduced prices ...

All the world’s a stage. Or a screen — at least starting Thursday at the Twin Cities Film Fest, which opens with “Hamnet,” the cinematic version of the superb novel by Maggie O’Farrell about events ...