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The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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A mathematician analyzed 150 years of women’s fashion to understand 20-year trend cycles, and how “optimal distinctiveness” drives change.

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Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.

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Photo: S Remi passes around the 3-D printed skull of “Lucy”, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in Ethiopia. While most second graders spend t ...

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Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness and wake up in a stupor after all 64 college basketball teams in the main tournament ...