A category-by-category look at odds on favorites, per a mathematical formula that factors in awards season data and historical trends. By Ben Zauzmer Ben Zauzmer is a contributing writer for The ...

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Lawmakers have introduced a flurry of measures to rein-in prediction markets in recent weeks, as the platforms have come ...

This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Eric, who asks, "I've heard that meteorologists use math to predict the weather. How does that work?" Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: Yes, ...

DraftKings’s strategy to become the leader in prediction markets is to do exactly what it did to dominate the online sports betting industry. The company is gearing up to operate in all 50 states, ...

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Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

A new Penn Wharton study finds that slashing benefits—not raising taxes—produces the biggest economic gains. Here’s the ...