Puzzles

When our brains don’t have a good intuition for reasoning with numbers, explicit probabilistic thinking can lead to improved decision-making.

When faced with a difficult decision, should you go with your gut or carefully calculate the attendant risks?

A method for estimating distances in sailing and astrophysics helps explain why riding on buses and boats can make us nauseous.

What does measuring distances in sailing and astrophysics have to with motion sickness?

This holiday season, catch up on science and math news while solving our year-end crossword.

How well does the Nash equilibrium concept from game theory map to the real world?

In applying game theory to biology and human behavior, have scientists focused too much on competition over cooperation?

When equipped with hidden layers, deep neural networks can accomplish nonlinear feats that are difficult even with sophisticated mathematics.

What happens when you increase the number of layers in an artificial neural network?