No one won the $1.43 billion Powerball jackpot in the Dec. 20 drawing. The winning numbers were 4, 5, 28, 52, and 69, with a red Powerball of 20. Eight tickets sold across seven states won $1 million ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot, but maybe Santa will see how good we've been this year. Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot has now reached $1 ...

The Powerball jackpot rose to $1.15 billion for the Monday, Dec. 15, drawing after no one on Saturday, Dec. 13, took home the top prize. If a ticket matches all five numbers plus the Powerball in the ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...

A male driver called into Radio 2GB in Sydney on Monday to explain that they discovered a lucrative loophole in the insurance system. The listener, a man named Ben, told Ben Fordham his car insurance ...

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Four-time champion Max Verstappen wants to change his career race number from 33 to 3 next year, assuming he does not win the championship and cannot continue with the No. 1. Since 2014, F1 drivers ...