"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S ...

New to sports betting? Here's what it means when there is a 'line' for a matchup that you are trying to gamble on.

Nominal means unadjusted for inflation or simply a face value in finance. Nominal fees are minor compared to the main product or service cost. Market values of stocks and bonds can differ ...

Google told us this is a "minor update to our rater guidelines with small clarifications and a handful of new examples." Google has pushed a minor update to its search quality raters guidelines PDF ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Stock float refers to shares available for public trading, excluding insider and restricted stocks. Smaller floats can cause high volatility and price shifts as seen in GameStop's 2021 squeeze.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

A fork in Git is simply a copy of an existing repository in which the new owner disconnects the codebase from previous committers. A fork often occurs when a developer becomes dissatisfied or ...

Have you ever wondered why gas, cigarettes or alcohol cost so much? The answer often comes down to an excise tax — a special ...

It's funny that some words just seem to "fit" their definitions. A key fob, for example, sounds exactly like what it is — a little trinket that hangs from your keys. Of course, a key fob is actually a ...