Deciding how fast to drive, brewing better beer, and winning bar bets — Mark Prell, a respected statistician, offers a modern ...

Background Patients who consult their GP about psychological complaints, such as feeling anxious or depressed, are often ...

Background A regional trial indicated that implementing at-risk asthma registers in primary care could reduce hospital ...

Every known animal has both a common name and a scientific name. While common names are used in everyday situations, ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

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

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

Detection decisions (red for absence, blue for presence) are based on the disjunctive integration rule (disjunction and negation of disjunction). Confidence decisions (dashed line for not sure, full ...

Volatile relationships, reckless impulsivity and an unstable identity are hallmarks of this misunderstood mental health ...

He was imprisoned for calling attention to the practice of declaring dissidents mentally ill. He later led efforts to confront his field’s dark past. By Clay Risen More than 20 seasons into its ...

If you could save lives by producing vaccines in transgenic bananas, would you? In the debate over large-scale commercialization and use of GMOs, where should we draw the line? Vaccines Tobacco ...

Introduction Mindfulness-based interventions are widely used, yet concerns about potential negative effects—particularly those related to mindfulness meditation practice—have gained increasing ...