Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth on Sept. 3. Here's how you can watch the build-up to the flyby live online, courtesy of ...

How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

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 ...

Abstract: Recently, crowdsourced geographic data have provided a cost-effective approach to learn deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) for road extraction from remote-sensing images. However, ...

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 ...

Today’s challenging puzzle is to find the odd letter “X” among the “K” sequence series. So, if you think you're a genius with Hawk-Eye Vision and possess an 169+ IQ level, then find the odd letter “X” ...

Today’s challenging puzzle is to find the odd letter “P” among the “R” sequence series. So, if you think you're a genius with an 143+ IQ level, then find the odd letter “P” in the sequence of the “R” ...