The current Powerball jackpot will rank as the sixth-highest lottery drawing in Powerball history. Here's what lottery players need to know about how to play Powerball, watch the Powerball drawing ...

In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

A few weeks ago, veteran point guard Chris Paul announced that he would be retiring at the end of the season. Then, early on Wednesday morning, he made another shocking announcement: he had been sent ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

With the government shutdown now poised to end, it’s clear Republicans are in worse shape politically now than when it started. The question is whether that will prove to be temporary — as has been ...

The transition from elementary school to middle school is not a small one for students. The change of going from one teacher in one classroom all day to multiple teachers and changing classes in a new ...

Iraq, which has long been a fertile land for proxy wars, has only recently regained a sense of stability, as it tries to move past decades of war — Hussein FALEH Iraqis voted for a new parliament ...

I spent several years of my career in the uncomfortable role of middle manager. On one side, I had executives asking me why my team couldn’t “do more,” and on the other side, my employees told me they ...