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Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Lignins—the complex molecules that make plants sturdy and allow them to grow tall—are not as random as once thought. A new ...

Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a ...

Randomized controlled trials are clinical trials in which at least two interventions — the test treatment and a control treatment — are simultaneously evaluated in two or more arms of the trial, with ...