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Today, there are more refugees and displaced people than ever before. Sophisticated analytics could be a game-changer for officials on the front lines of the crisis.

As you’re walking through city streets on your way to work, school or appointments, you probably feel like you’re taking the most efficient route. Thanks to evolution, you’re probably not.

Math isn’t prejudiced, goes the argument. But these arithmetic programs can learn bias from the data fed into them by human beings, leading to unfair treatment and discrimination.

Undergraduate statistics degrees have tripled in the past decade. Is ‘statistician’ really the sexy new job?

The route to economic growth starts by making our cities more productive – the bigger, the denser, the better.

This method of crowdsourcing science legwork is ready to expand into other disciplines – and maybe the amateurs themselves can start calling some of the shots.

Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.

To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.

Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.

Predicting human behavior is big business. But science may never be able to do so with perfect certainty.