A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an event is influenced by what you already believe about the surrounding ...

Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work. Probability is a mathematical framework ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “This retroactive idea. It has to be that,” says Nobel ...

THERE are probably few mathematicians who can follow the long and difficult investigations by which it has been attempted to dispense with the second law, and to represent thermodynamical properties ...