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 ...

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(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 ...

The empirical rule describes how points are clustered in a normally-distributed data set. It states that 95% of data fall ...

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A new study calculates the probability of living past age 110, which, though rare, likely will increase this century. The number of people who live past the age of 100 has been on the rise for decades ...