What started as a niche corner of the internet has evolved into a multibillion-dollar industry. In 2025, prediction markets have become a substantial instrument for speculation and the forecasting of ...

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The big thinkers at Aperture discuss the future of human spaceflight and interplanetary exploration.

Your friend says to you: "I bet you $100 that in 2016 a Democrat will be elected as president of the USA." Would you take such a wager? Why or why not? You might think gambling is wrong. You might ...

Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

Recently, my security team prevented a data breach—not by catching someone stealing data, but by predicting they would attempt it days before they actually tried. It wasn’t luck. We had something more ...

Corporate social responsibility “is not quite dead,“ writes Michael Skapinker, a columnist for The Financial Times. Mr. Skapinger felt compelled to respond to Harvard Business Review’s Conversation ...