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The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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Every time the U.S. military blows up a suspected drug boat, President Donald Trump claims, it saves "25,000 American lives." As of late January, Trump's deadly campaign against cocaine couriers had ...

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Since the pandemic, offices around the world have quietly shrunk. Many organizations don't need as much floor space or as many desks, given many staff now do a mix of hybrid work from home and the ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

Shampoos that claim to be “DHT-blocking” promise a simple solution: Wash your hair and slow or even stop hair loss. But can a rinse-off product really influence a hormone-driven process happening deep ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your workplace questions each week for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of SHRM, the world's largest trade association of human resources professionals, and author ...