Weather forecasts sometimes warn of storms that can unleash rains so unusual that they are described as 100-year or even ...

Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme a flood is and how common these extreme events are becoming.

Although math can calculate how often to expect floods ... “We’ve absolutely seen a shift in the probability distribution of heavy rainfall over the last three decades,” Gensini said.

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new method to measure the Hubble constant that could help resolve ...

If we truly want to make America smart again, we must reject the culture of shortcuts, diluted curricula and intellectual complacency—and instead embrace a renewed commitment to rigor, inquiry and the ...

Knowing the distribution's mean is 13.1 years old ... 8.6 to 17.6 The person solving this problem needs to calculate the total probability of the animal living 14.6 years or longer.

The equation 10 + x = 13 shows that we can calculate the specific value ... variable is the outcome of a coin toss. Consider a probability distribution in which the outcomes of a random event ...

What does the protein content in cows' milk have in common with human IQ? Both variables have approximately normal distributions. The normal distribution is a good model for measurements of many kinds ...