NPR's Scott Simon talks to John Hogan, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Bristol, about his research on the "Golfer's Curse" - when a ball looks like it's been sunk, but spins back ...

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Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of ...

Sound familiar? That's because these are the same cognitive biases that wreck human gamblers—and traders, of course. The researchers identified three classic gambling fallacies in AI behavior: ...

When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

Sports betting, once confined to race tracks and bookmakers’ offices, has evolved into a structured global industry with ...

Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

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The article examines the problem of training load periodization for professional football players under the conditions of an increasingly congested competition calendar and heightened injury risks.