Most work in the neurosciences collapses data from multiple subjects to obtain robust statistical results, which ignores that even in healthy subjects brain structure and function are known to be ...

We are surrounded by random events every day. Will the stock market rise or fall tomorrow? Will the next penalty kick in a soccer match go left or right? Will your lottery ticket finally win? Often, ...

Whether or not such people actually think differently, there's got to be an identifiable psychological component. Grandiosity? Those bitten hardest by the conspiracy theory bug seem to take particular ...

“To swim against the current of human intuition is a difficult task. ... the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can, therefore, have a hard time accepting the ...

The global economy needs true randomness to encrypt messages and make sure elections are honest. But not all randomness is random enough, and humans and computers alike are really bad at generating it ...