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Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to decision-making can achieve

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment

For decades, the mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists. But new research suggests otherwise

A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

All the sun’s planets are oddballs. But some are more so than others

The company says Mythos is too dangerous to release publicly. Cybersecurity experts agree the model's capabilities matter, but not all of them are buying the most alarming claims

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it’s all in our head

As AI songs get harder to tell apart from human-made music, an older technology offers a revealing preview of the fight over artistry, labor and pay

Observations by the Mars Express orbiter reveal rapid changes on the Red Planet’s surface from windblown volcanic ash