I read the news about the urgency of addressing climate change, and as a mathematician who studies climate change, I was not surprised. Very worried, but not surprised.

A few days before...

Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, climate change...

The U.S. Mega Millions lottery is holding a drawing on Oct. 19 for a jackpot that’s swelled to US$1 billion after the 24 drawings held since the end of July failed to yield a winner.

This princely sum is drawing such attention that more people are buying tickets, and even the lottery’s own projections are changing rapidly. On Oct. 17,...

The U.S. Mega Millions lottery jackpot swelled to a record US$1.6 billion after the 25 drawings held since the end of July – including the latest on Oct. 19 – failed to yield a winner.

That ties it for the largest lottery grand prize the world has ever seen. The jackpot for the rival Powerball game also reached $1.6 billion in 2016.

The o...

One winner finally emerged for the US$1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Research suggests the as-yet unidentified winner may not be so lucky.

The jackpot swelled to that huge sum after the 25 drawings held since the end of July failed to yield a winner. That makes it the second-largest lottery grand prize the world has ever seen. The record...

The Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Oct. 19 has soared to US$1 billion.

In the middle of the 20th century, when lotteries first started in the U.S., they were sold to states as a way to benefit the American public. That suggests that bigger and bigger jackpots...

The Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Oct. 23 has soared to US$1.6 billion.

In the middle of the 20th century, when lotteries first started in the U.S., they were sold to states as a way to benefit the American public. That suggests that bigger and bigger jackpots should mean more tax dollars to spend on public services like education. But that...

Al votar, en realidad no importa en qué partido estemos inscritos.

Además, en 18 estados los votantes ni siquiera están registrados por partidos. Lo que realmente importa es lo que los politólogos como...

The Takata Corporation sold defective air bag inflators that resulted in the death of 16 people in the United States and a massive recall of cars. While it was rare for the air bags to fail, the brutal consequences of this defective device in even minor...

Some of the best known examples of artificial intelligence are Siri and Alexa, which listen to human speech, recognize words, perform searches and translate the text results back into speech. But these and other AI technologies raise...