How can you ensure your Everest expedition ends in success? Why is it so hard to find a good fit when shopping for clothes? This issue of Significance has statistical answers to both these questions and a good many more besides.

Celebrating 100 issues of the magazine, the June issue is a special edition featuring a look back at the origins of Significance and how its mission to make statistical stories engaging and accessible continues today.

As the FIFA World Cup 2022 gets into full swing in Qatar, the December issue of Significance sheds statistical light on events on and off the field.

Digging for data from the medieval ages occupies James Walker, John Lee, and Stephen Broadberry in the August issue of Significance. They use ancient statistical documents, including arguably the most famous of them all—Domesday Book, published in 1086—to painstakingly reconstruct the medieval economy.

The issue also looks at Wordle, the gender breakdown of most Significance writers, college admissions during COVID-19, women and astronomers, and data-driven advertising.

In a special 12-page collection of articles in this issue, friends and colleagues remember Sir David in their own way, while also reflecting on his immense contributions to statistics. Additionally, a selection of pieces is devoted to COVID data, lockdowns, modeling, and student learning.

The December 2021 issue of Significance features an assortment of statistical stories and data discussions to indulge in over the festive season.

Can a pet tortoise predict when it’s about to rain? That’s the somewhat unusual question posed by Conner Jackson, winner of Significance magazine’s Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing. Jackson’s article, “Pietro the Weather Tortoise and the Pursuit of Soggy Bun Prevention,” leads the line-up of feature articles in the October 2021 issue.

Discover how statistical ideas inform the design and implementation of biometric security systems and how estimates of dangerous space debris are produced—all in the June 2021 issue of Significance.

Significance issued an open call for contributions, asking statisticians and data scientists “to help us explain the statistics of COVID-19.”