A new statistical model could help to address the age-old question of how to price non-physical, intangible goods like data, say scientists. In a new study published in Physical Review Research, ...

It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American dice could potentially provide the first-ever proof of humans gambling, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal American ...

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...

Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world's oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the oldest use of probability, a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new piece of research shows that the world’s oldest-known dice came from North America 12,000 years ago. The rudimentary games of chance were used ...