For years, social media users have been lecturing one another about what percentages mean in weather forecasts. "Y'all know on the weather app the percentage isn't a "chance" of rain. It means it will ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed new insight into a formula that helped British cryptanalysts crack the German Enigma code in World War II. Scientists at the ...

The percentage of rain on your weather app might not mean what you think.Rain chances simply indicate the probability of at ...

This week, All Things Considered is exploring how people interpret probability. What does it mean to us, for example, when a doctor says an operation has a 70 percent chance of success? One of the ...