Random chance has always been an important element in gaming, from the roll of dice in ancient board games to the complex algorithms that power modern video games. When players cannot predict outcomes ...

Over the past nine months, the Republican Party has been consumed by a debate over how it should respond to Mitt Romney's loss in 2012. Should it reach out to Hispanics? Should it move to the center?

They concluded that some cancers arise simply by chance — more cell divisions beget more opportunities for random mistakes. Factors like carcinogens or inherited gene mutations may also be in the mix, ...

Random chance mechanics in video games can be frustrating. Missing a 90% shot in XCOM, when you really need it to hit, can cause some players to throw their controller or rage quit. But not all ...

A reconstruction of an adult female Homo erectus, from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, shows one of the earliest humans from which modern people descend. Reconstruction by John Gurche; ...

Linguists know a huge amount about the historical changes that have shaped the English we speak today, but there are still plenty of questions to be answered. In some cases, new tools that linguists ...

Last year, we ran a study testing whether astrological sun signs (like Scorpio and Capricorn) can predict any of 37 facts about a person’s life, such as their educational level and number of close ...

The hot and cold spots from the hemispheres of the sky, as they appear in the CMB. This encodes a tremendous amount of information about the early Universe. We expect both hemispheres to have the same ...

We’re all going to die. We don’t like admitting this fact, and usually the games we play at least attempt to mask this brutal truth. Most games treat death as just a prelude to a loading screen and a ...

Fire Emblem Heroes sees Nintendo entering new game-design territory. Sure, Nintendo has previously toyed with free-to-play games on both 3DS and iOS, and it has experimented with radically altering ...