When the United States and Mexico reached a new understanding about trade matters this past summer, renegotiating parts of the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump cheered.

If we tallied up the most common words we’ve used on this show over the last handful of years, “uncertainty” would rank high on the list. We’ve used it to describe what’s happening in the housing ...

(Uncertainty was a much-discussed economic issue during the 2010s.) Measuring uncertainty is neither obvious nor easy. Economists have devised various ways to track this slippery creature: mining ...

Plainly put, readmissions cost hospitals money. Patients come back to emergency rooms after their initial discharge for many reasons, but emergency medicine physician Kristin Rising, MD, sees a common ...

Most Americans believe in God, but doubts are more common than is often reported. Nearly half (46 percent) of the public express some amount of uncertainty about the exis­tence of God. Nonbelievers ...

More than ever before, there is a growing interest in dedicating resources to stop the loss of biodiversity, as recently exemplified by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) decided ...

Another year, another season of unpredictable chaos. That’s the name of the game in a sport as dynamically erratic as hockey and it means things will never go as expected. Just think back to the last ...

GUM, the internationally approved technique for calculating measurement uncertainty, is reliant on the availability of a certified reference sample. Likewise, to find any repeatable offset (systematic ...