An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

Blaise Pascal was a teen mathematical genius who built a mechanical calculator before most kids finish schoolwork on their own. Several years later, a gambling question led him to found the ...

The iQRM Warm-Ups are short, half hour sessions that review the basics covered in iQRM. This is a tour of the foundational math without application. The seminar covers probability, the normal ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high. As ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights I was preparing for my early morning class back in ...

The orbit of 2024 YR4 will take it close to Earth, but scientists have found the chance of a collision to be exceedingly low. Credit:NASA/JPL. I was preparing for my early morning class back in ...

I have been studying planetary defense, particularly being part of past, ongoing, and future small body missions. I was part of the NASA/DART mission. I am currently part of the NASA/Lucy mission and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing ...

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet.

Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?