In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages. The database that tracks these costs used to be maintained by ...

"These statistical agencies are essential infrastructure," Nancy Potok said. "There are so many critical decisions made based on federal statistical data." ...

For hackers, the stolen data would be useless, but authorized users would have a secret key that filters out the fake ...

A poor night's sleep portends a bleary-eyed next day, but it could also hint at diseases that will strike years down the road ...

Today's New York Times reports on a new study by three economists purporting to show that the Supreme Court's decisions ...

An academic study found that large language models that drive some humanoid robots could make the machines prone to bias, ...

Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world, estimated at roughly 303 billion barrels, yet it consistently ...

It was hard to know what to believe this year. In the old days, there were conspiracies about the moon landing. These days, it feels like there's a conspiracy about everything -- that the truth is up ...

And for us, it’s our responsibility to wrestle with numbers that challenge our assumptions, whether we’re journalists, ...

A strong data governance foundation is essential for higher education institutions to deploy trustworthy, effective ...

Innovation in ophthalmology is often measured by what reaches the clinic—but the path to those breakthroughs begins much ...

Here are some memorable examples of when that process paid off this year: when a few numbers, the shape of a line, or the ...