A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk ...

This important cross-species study tests whether the corpus callosum contains parallel, segregated pathways for ipsilateral and contralateral visual-field information, rather than mixed inputs from ...

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native ...

This valuable study addressed a key question in epilepsy research: whether the recordings of very fast oscillations in the brain (>250Hz, fast ripples) reflect underlying pathology or might be a ...

Ukraine’s Orthodox Easter gave an opportunity to extend a morsel of good faith as both sides lick the wounds of recent escalations. Vladimir Putin has ordered troops across the debris-strewn theatre ...

The man who killed one tourist at a Mexican pyramid and wounded several others had materials in his backpack tied to a 1999 U.S. attack, a possible reference to the Columbine High School massacre. By ...