Federal freezes to foreign assistance are affecting grants for investigative reporters everywhere—but especially in poorer countries ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Today, we know a lot about distance work and how to make it work. Thirty years of federally funded research brought ...

Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models.

A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on ...

A team of UCSF researchers successfully tested several mainstream AI agents for the ability to analyze big data on women's ...

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...