The Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution describes the probability distribution of molecular speeds in a sample of an ideal gas.

If the receiver of an anonymous message is taken to be the adversary, then their best guess from a set of candidate senders ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to researchers in Europe. This extends the study of correlated systems to electron ...

A test and its empirical distribution (n > 4) has been developed to examine whether a set of sample results arise from a population which possesses a uniform distribution. The test statistic is easy ...

Keeping Earth safe from asteroids isn’t just spotting them – it’s also helping people understand what a high-impact probability with Earth means.

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet.