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Five good trends and the stories behind them.

Your Spotify year-end playlist is just the beginning.

After removing outlier populations, a new study suggests conservation efforts could be working better than researchers anticipated.

And why the effect is slowly going away over time.

Sure, smarts can lead to more touchdowns and rings. But there are other statistics that carry weight on draft night.

Polly wants a black token — and knows how to get it.

From the Curse of the Billy Goat to the disrepute of Steve Bartman, one Cubs fan dissects the strange science behind her team’s superstitions.

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Though the odds do seem to be in our favor.