If Mr. Newsom wins, then Polymarket owes you a dollar. If he loses, then Kalshi owes you a dollar. One of these bets must be ...

NBA executive Evan Wasch helped steer the league's committee that brought about the "3-2-1 lottery" system that begins in ...

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In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...

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Let's run through the lottery changes one by one with what I've heard in conversations with sources around the league.

A system employing proportional representation could halt gerrymandering — and the damage it does to representative democracy — in its tracks. But this would need to be implemented with care. The ...

Donald Trump has been written off a thousand times and always managed to bounce back. He hung on when he first got in the race and was mocked as a sideshow. When the "Access Hollywood" tape came out.

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Scientists in the United States say they may be inching closer to a long-sought goal in medicine: a single vaccine capable of protecting against multiple respiratory threats, from COVID-19 and the flu ...