I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high. As ...

It's been a long time since I scraped through my probability and stats class in college... There is a time-killing dice game a friend (seems to have) invented: You start with a pool 10 6-sided ...

Ito, H., Yasuda, N., and Matsumoto, M. 1985. The probability of parentage exclusion based on restriction fragment length polymorphisms.Jpn. J. Human Genet. 30: 261–269.

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights I was preparing for my early morning class back in ...