Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Resigns in the Face of Mass Protests

Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov announced he was stepping down, becoming the latest leader to leave in the past four years, ...
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Nine new butterfly species discovered by scientists tackling taxonomic tangle

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

Word of the Day: ‘panacea’ — when you’re feeling under the weather, here’s a word you should know

We call it a “panacea,” a word that now reveals more about human longing than medical reality. Here’s what you need to know ...

Why You’re Better Than a Computer at Solving Connections

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.
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Problems In Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics And Theory Of Random Functions

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