In sports, coin tosses are often used to decide who goes first, or pick who goes to bat for the first part of the game. It seems fair. You'd assume that as coins have two sides and you introduce a ...

It turns out that James Watson’s Nobel Prize medal, which he won in 1962 for codiscovering the structure of DNA, will be staying with the biologist after all. The Russian entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov, ...

A recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, titled "Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence ...

The prize recognized "their analysis of markets with search frictions." Dale Mortensen's Nobel Prize medal was donated to Northwestern in 2019. British-born John Pople was a pioneer in the theoretical ...

The Fields Medal is the most ... outstanding achievements. The prize is endowed with 15,000 Canadian dollars and was conceived by the Canadian mathematician John Charges Fields (1863-1932) to ...

Suppose instead of Nobel Prizes in science we were talking about an Olympic gold medal for the 100-meter dash ... they suggest it's like winning a coin-flipping contest in which innate talent ...