A special set of numbers has formed the backbone of nuclear physics research for decades, and now we finally know how it arises from the quantum mix of nuclear particles and forces. Nearly 80 years ...

The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent and the economy added 130,000 jobs in January. The gains were powered, once again, by health care. +400,000 The average job gain over the last three months ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based directly on the interactions between their protons and neutrons. Published in ...

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Darting down the highway, you might have been tempted to call the driver sticking to your tail for the past few miles a “DUMMY,” but your license plate is not the place to do it — at least in Maryland ...

Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump’s use of words — that is, his peculiar style of oratory. But more attention should be paid to another feature of his discourse: his use of numbers.

If you’ve been clutching your lucky numbers tighter as the Powerball jackpot balloons to a brain-melting $1.1 billion, you’re not alone — but don’t kid yourself into thinking the math is suddenly on ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

A new study has revealed America’s most common passwords and the results make for concerning reading. It’s more important now than ever before for web users to protect personal information online with ...

What do you know about numerology? That it’s about numbers? You guessed it! But delve deeper into this fascinating mystical practice and you’ll discover that the science and art of numbers could hold ...

Player can pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Mall). Players can also select the ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...