I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high. As ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing ...

It is a question on the minds of so many people who are planning for retirement: Will I run out of money? We can take into account all of the income a person expects in retirement as well as their ...

It’s important in trading to have a good understanding of probability, or at least not have misconceptions about probability. While the Forex market and other financial markets move based on supply ...

A research group has created a new model to calculate the probability of the occurrence of localized clusters caused by novel coronavirus infections. Led by Shingo Iwami at Nagoya University with ...

It had to happen: the property bubble burst and the global financial market experienced its biggest crisis in the last hundred years. In retrospect, many suspected it was coming, but nobody could have ...

Honeybees can calculate probability, but it seems they don’t use it the same way we tend to. Andrew Barron at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues trained 20 honeybees to ...

Angus, a PhD student from Perth, created an infographic painstakingly analysing all 39 of Mr McGowan's press conferences during the past seven months. He described his study as 'a data driven approach ...