In rock-paper-scissors, the ideal strategy is simple: You should play a random move each round, choosing all three ...

Algorithms are all around us, governing everything from the recipes we use to cook dinner to the routes our navigational systems suggest we take to avoid traffic. But what exactly is an algorithm? In ...

Studies of diversity in academic publishing arrive regularly in the scientific literature. But where do the data come from? Publications don’t usually include demographic data such as the gender, race ...