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 ...

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

November is almost over, and that means your budget doesn't have much wiggle room left. Don't worry, we've got you covered with the best ways to save money shopping at Dollar Tree. Whether you're in ...

A hundred years ago, Maryland’s first state forester, Fred Besley, issued a challenge to residents: Go out in the woods and find the biggest tree you can. Then collect its measurements and send them ...

Ramming a shin into a coffee table. Bumping a knee into that rod under your desk. Taking a tumble off a bike. These things tend to hurt like [redacted], so you probably won’t be surprised when you ...

Construction resumes on Reno home nearly 18 months after fire After sitting damaged and nearly untouched for more than a year, construction has finally resumed on a fire-damaged home in Reno’s Damonte ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Officers were called to Tierra Lynn and James Street just before 1 p.m. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Residents return to Carver Mobile Home Ranch as Clackamas River floodwaters ...

A team from the Institute for Advanced Study, Emory University in the US, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, has developed a new mathematical framework to understand how humans store ...