A mathematical mastermind has explained how he has won the lottery 14 times. The now 91-year-old used probabilities and patterns to hit the jackpot again and again. The probability of winning the ...

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Scientists are investigating a mysterious pulse signal from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The signal reportedly follows a Fibonacci pattern and is detected at a frequency linked to interstellar ...

Scientists like Avi Loeb spotlight anomalies hinting at alien tech as it hurtles past Mars on 3 October. NASA & ESA track this potential spaceship—could it change everything? A signal unlike any other ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...

Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has clinched them their second Premier League title but it also resulted in something curious – producing a strange series of numbers in the league's record books ...

Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has clinched them their second Premier League title but it also resulted in something curious – producing a strange series of numbers in the league's record books ...