(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Toshi Hirabayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) I was preparing ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high. As ...

In order to get a more accurate estimate of the probability, we would need to look at a greater number of trials. Let’s imagine we have a bag containing two different types of sweet but we do not know ...

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Honeybees can calculate probability, but it seems they don’t use it the same way we tend to. Andrew Barron at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and his colleagues trained 20 honeybees to ...

Even babies can estimate the probability of an event, say scientists who suggest that our ability to analyse risks and benefits of any action begins to develop when we are just six months old. Babies ...

When planning to visit an unfamiliar place on holiday or business, I always call on Google maps to find out how to get there first. Very much the same applies to beginning a start-up company or any ...