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A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

A single equation found on a Babylonian clay tablet, written nearly four millennia ago, reveals a mathematical insight eerily ...

Have you ever made a wisecrack about something terrible that just happened, and been greeted with dead silence instead of a laugh? Not a great feeling. It's tricky knowing what you're allowed to joke ...