Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Lisa Pringle This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Eric, who asks, "I've heard that meteorologists ...

Isaac Rose-Berman doesn’t think that gambling is evil. After deciding not to pursue a doctorate in political science, Rose-Berman became a professional gambler for a time. But these days, in his 20s, ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) takes on increasingly critical roles—from managing power grids to piloting autonomous vehicles—making sure these systems are safe has never been more important. But how ...

Work by UB mathematician Gino Biondini builds on centuries of research devoted to using math to describe the physical world.

Is it possible to prevent an heir from spending their inheritance on things to which we are diametrically opposed? I would hate for our money to end up in the hands of organizations that oppose ...

To test whether families unlinked to this major locus showed evidence for linkage elsewhere in the genome, we carried out an additional analysis in which weights 0 or 1 were assigned to each family ...