A Japanese government panel has revised its estimate of the chances of a megaquake occurring within 30 years in the Nankai Trough, off the country's Pacific Coast.
Learn how to calculate hazard rate, its practical implications in engineering and finance, and why it's critical in predicting survival and failure rates.
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Quantum computers may solve problems beyond supercomputers. A new test helps confirm quantum answers for errors.
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How Engineers Really Predict Flood Risk

The term "100-year flood" is often misunderstood - many believe it means a flood that happens once every 100 years, but that’s not how probability works. Instead, it refers to a flood that has a 1% ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...
A forgotten man on the practice squad 10 months ago, Thornton was the Chiefs' WR1 on "Sunday Night Football" in the ...
In 1961, American astronomer Frank Drake first formulated the Drake Equation in an attempt to calculate the number of active ...