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It's used as a tie-breaker, a this-or-that decision maker. But the long considered fair coin toss actually has quite a bit of bias.

Science & Energy

Coin Flips Aren’t Actually 50-50, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

$According to Bloomberg, there's a man out there who's beaten Roulette, no computer required — and all he says it took was a little practice. Easy!$

A Math and Physics Savant Reportedly Figured Out How to Beat Roulette

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What would happen if you threw all 7.88 billion humans on Earth into one galactic blender and extracted the resulting goo into a sphere?

Prosthetics and Devices

Disturbing Simulation Shows What Would Happen if You Blended Up Every Living Human

By Victor Tangermann

On Pi Day, All Hail the Pi Master of Earth: Suresh Kumar Sharma

Science & Energy

On Pi Day, All Hail the Pi Master of Earth: Suresh Kumar Sharma

By Alexandra Ossola

Math Can Help Us Treat Diseases and Develop Better Vaccines

Science & Energy

Math Can Help Us Treat Diseases and Develop Better Vaccines

By Christianna Reedy

With Three Years to Prepare, Even This AI Couldn’t Ace China’s Difficult Math Exam

Artificial Intelligence

With Three Years to Prepare, Even This AI Couldn’t Ace China’s Difficult Math Exam

By Christianna Reedy

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A Brief History of Technology

By Todd Jaquith

Unlocking the Physics of Our Universe: Unusual Numbers Found in Particle Collisions

Unlocking the Physics of Our Universe: Unusual Numbers Found in Particle Collisions

By Jelor Gallego

$World’s Largest Math Proof Solved. And It Takes Up 200 Terabytes$

Science & Energy

World’s Largest Math Proof Solved. And It Takes Up 200 Terabytes

By Adeel Shaffi

$Scientists Launched an Enormous Atlas of the Mathematical Universe$

Science & Energy

Scientists Launched an Enormous Atlas of the Mathematical Universe

By Jelor Gallego

New Largest Prime Number Was Just Discovered, and It’s 22 Million Digits Long

Science & Energy

New Largest Prime Number Was Just Discovered, and It’s 22 Million Digits Long

By Todd Jaquith

Scientists Just Proved A Fundamental Quantum Physics Problem is Unsolvable

Quantum Physics

Scientists Just Proved A Fundamental Quantum Physics Problem is Unsolvable