Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.

Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal. By Sebastian Castillo Late last spring I went through a period of some personal troubles and felt I was in need of spiritual assistance.

After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation – ...

Johan Ferreira receives funding from the Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, based at the University of the Witwatersrand, towards this Scholarship of Learning and Teaching ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup ...

Mr. Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. In her memoir, Dorothy Allison writes, “Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the ...

It might seem obvious and straightforward that, when it comes to climate change, the United States owes something to the planet’s less-wealthy nations for the consequences of our fossil fuel burning.

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

Construction is nearing completion on a Cumberland County library’s new learning and book sale center. The 8,600-square-foot facility is located at 45 W. Allen St. in Mechanicsburg, just a few blocks ...

Researchers from Peking University have conducted a comprehensive systematic review on the integration of machine learning into statistical methods for disease risk prediction models, shedding light ...