Threat analysts have spotted a new version of the XLoader botnet malware that uses probability theory to hide its command and control servers, making it difficult to disrupt the malware's operation.

Many gamblers rely on the law of averages to convince themselves to play another hand, but they have a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...