What Ultrarunners Teach Us About the Limits of Calorie-Burning

The dark blue circles on the left side of the graph show the direct measurements of calorie burn during training and racing.
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Spotting Trends in Patients' Tests

Statistics, and the standard deviation of our tests, mean that if you order a complete metabolic profile, a lipid panel, a ...
Foreign Affairs

Xi Jinping Confronts the Downsides of Success

Xi’s China is either a formidable competitor with the intent, resources, and technological prowess to surpass the United States or an economic basket case on the verge of implosion. Depending on whom ...
Veritasium on MSN

How Repeated Squaring Exposes the Limits of Numbers and Machines

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion ...

Graphene partially screens van der Waals interactions depending on layer thickness, study reveals

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only a few atoms thick, are known to exhibit unique electrical, mechanical and ...
Communications of the ACM

Shields for Safe Reinforcement Learning

Evaluating the advantages and potential drawbacks of shielding as a method for safe RL. Bettina Könighofer is an assistant professor at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria. Roderick Bloem ...
Frontstretch

F1 Review: Max Verstappen Unchallenged At COTA, Lando Norris Grabs Needed Points

Pole-sitter Max Verstappen dominated from start to finish and easily won the USGP on Sunday (October 19th), further eating ...