People love surprises: For example, a surprise party for friends, an unexpected gift for the kids or a spontaneous trip. All of these enrich life and, according to some research, a positive surprise ...

Flip a coin. Heads? Take a step to the left. Tails? Take a step to the right. In the quantum world? Go in both directions at once, like a wave spreading out. Called the walker analogy, this random ...

Measurement shows that almost one-half of all market days are down days and slightly more are up days, but close enough to think of it as 50/50. Just as the probability of getting a long string of ...

To paraphrase French-Algerian thinker Albert Camus: One must imagine the coin flipper happy. In Unfair Flips, released on Steam today by developer Heather Flowers, you have a coin and a button. The ...

Probability is a greatly misunderstood area of math that impacts most areas of WoW gameplay, but none so intensely debated as drop chances. You don't have to be a math expert to want to know how many ...

The New England Patriots have recently been very lucky. NPR's Kelly McEvers and Robert Siegel explain the probability of the football team winning the last 19 out of 25 coin tosses. It's not like we ...