In the game of war, there are no winners, no losers, only casualties. Both unsettling and tender is Franz Böhm’s ...

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

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

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

Rock-paper-scissors, also known as roshambo, has determined the outcome of millions of extremely important decisions. (That’s a rough estimate.) The knowledge that scissors cut paper, that rock ...

In this article, I'm going to tackle a children's game that's extraordinarily complicated, with many variations, and the programming task is going to be quite tricky. Just kidding! Rock Paper Scissors ...

(CBS News) Okay, that does it. Science has just hit the pinnacle of achievement. That's right, folks: an ultimate "rock-paper-scissor" robot has finally been created. Just watch and see it in action.

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 ...

As a child, many of us settled disputes (such as who would go first down the slide) by playing a simple game called Rock-Paper-Scissors. The game is simple: You pound your closed fist into your hand ...