Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...

Ever find yourself reading a Wikipedia page and then following a link to another interesting article and from there to other pages? I get lost down these Wiki rabbit holes all of the time and before I ...

Modern video games are not balanced by accident. At the heart of any system that feels unpredictable but not cruel are layers of artificial intelligence (AI) that influence the outcome.

On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...

In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure could be a household name. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...

And yet fear is among his recurring themes. Each of Alameddine’s books, dissimilar as they otherwise may be, is an attempt to wrestle with the terrifying arbitrariness of fate. This preoccupation ...

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 new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

As Thomas Merton, theologian and writer, often suggested, much of our life is sustained by a rhythm, and when rhythms falter, the soul tends to follow suit. And so it is that one of the most ...