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A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...

A lawyer for Elon Musk said in a Philadelphia courtroom Monday that the winners of Musk’s $1 million daily prize giveaway in election swing states are not chosen at random, contradicting what Musk ...

It's a problem many Spotify users know all too well: no matter how many times a large playlist gets shuffled, it always seems to pick out the same handful of songs to play first. While some listeners ...

For decades, we’ve been urged to commit random acts of kindness. But in today’s ever busier, more stressful times, it might be of value to offer examples of such acts that take little time or effort.

What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy? The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the long-sought theory of quantum gravity. But what if this theory is as ...