Three near-identical U.S. lizards have kept their identities for millions of years in a way that researchers compare to the ...

The side-splotched lizard (*Uta stansburiana*) is a common reptile found in California, United States. In spring, the color ...

A game designer has revealed his strategy for triumphing over an opponent in a game of rock, paper, scissors. New Yorker Nick Metzler, or @nickmetzler1 on TikTok, recently took to the popular social ...

Two new studies into lizard colors reveal how one species maintains its colorful diversity while others are losing their ...

My opponent and I faced each other across the white lines, separated by an arm's length in the dark, smoky bar. He planted his feet firmly, shoulder-width apart, while I fell into a fighting stance, ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

It's a lot about luck. But in the fast-paced and precarious sport of Rock Paper Scissors, strategy and being able to look the other guy in the eye count for something, too. "When you're just playing ...

SEATTLE — Of all the decisions Cary Greif has made in her 38 years, this should have been among the simplest. "I had prepared. I had gone online and looked over strategies. But when I got up there, ...

This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This is an excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan’s book “Uncertainty in Games.” Unless you have lived in a Skinner box from an early ...

“No washing dishes for me tonight," I said after I beat my sister at a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS). I was 10, and RPS was our “go-to” game of fate to decide all kinds of issues. Little did I ...

Hypothetically, suppose you are about to play a total stranger a single game (not 2 out of 3 or anything, just best 1 out of 1) of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Just before you start the game, a friend of ...