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WA DNR wrapping up its statewide wildfire hazard and risk mapping listening sessions

If you missed the Wildfire Hazard and Risk Mapping listening session held in Aberdeen on Jan. 22, there is a chance to attend ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

Beam-spin asymmetry study puts proton models to the test

Getting an up-close view of life at the cellular level can be as simple as placing onion skin under a microscope and adjusting the knobs. Peering deeper, into the heart of the atoms within, isn't as ...

The Edge of Mathematics

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

How to Use the Addition Rule for Probabilities

The addition rule for probabilities determines the chance of either mutually exclusive or overlapping events happening, using ...

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...