Extracting regularities from temporal sequences of events is central to human cognition. By identifying patterns, people form predictions about upcoming events. If, when waiting at a train crossing, ...

Prime numbers are the ones that have only two factors: 1 and itself. Credit: Ssindhwani / Wikimedia Commons Prime numbers are those divisible only by themselves and by one. Despite their apparent ...

The Plant Cell, Vol. 6, No. 12 (Dec., 1994), pp. 1877-1887 (11 pages) The homeobox of the knotted1 (kn1) gene was used to isolate 12 related sequences in maize. The homeodomains encoded by the ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 87, No. 2 (1990), pp. 826-830 (5 pages) We have developed a method for rapidly finding patterns of conserved amino ...

You've likely heard of hot hands or hot streaks -- periods of repeated successes -- in sports, financial markets and gambling. But do hot streaks exist in individual creative careers? You've likely ...