Provided content. 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.

There’s no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body. “Meditation is a practice to calm the brain by recentering our attention, ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Yet women remain largely unrepresented in the research meant to diagnose and treat it. A Triangle-based program is working to change that. Heart ...

If Alexa’s in your home, you might’ve been one of many users this month who were suddenly moved from the original Alexa to the new AI-powered Alexa+ voice assistant. Amazon announced in early January ...

Faced with staffing shortages, administrative strain and geographic barriers, rural hospitals are increasingly adopting AI to expand care access and ease pressure on front-line teams. Rather than ...

The Midwest is usually associated with uncomplicated kindness—nice, polite people who like college football, a cold beer, and (recent events in Minnesota notwithstanding) treating their neighbors with ...

China’s rapid electrification has been hailed as a miracle. By some measures, India is even further ahead. The nation is electrifying faster and using fewer fossil fuels per capita than China did when ...

Google’s Gemini, in particular, according to ProPublica, citing internal communications. The regulations don’t even have to be that good, officials say; “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We ...

"Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was one of the leading scientists and mathematicians of his age," writes scholar J. M. Cohen in his introduction to Pascal's famous Pensées. "His work on the vacuum, ...