One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The last thing you need after completing a lung-bursting 13 or 26 miles is to be greeted by plenty of smoke at the finish. But that’s exactly what the first few Chubb Bermuda Triangle Challenge ...

Abstract: In recent years, the quantification of structural uncertainty using evidence theory has been widely adopted. However, there is a long-term difficult problem of overconservative reliability ...

I was settling into one of those airport activity tables with high stools and electric outlets at my flight’s gate, waiting for the agent to announce boarding, when I felt a gathering storm at the ...

A Johnston County man was arrested and charged with death by distribution in an overdose. An analysis found the drugs were laced with carfentanil, fentanyl and ANPP. The charges are tied to a Johnston ...

PyApp seems to be taking the Python world by storm, providing long-awaited click-and-run Python distribution. For developers who need a little more versatility, there’s uv. Find these tools and more ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that authorities along with state-owned company Pemex have resolved distribution problems that caused gasoline shortages at service stations in the ...

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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip—Thousands of hungry Palestinians amassed last Tuesday morning outside a barbed-wire fence surrounding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid center here. The moment the gates ...