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Dirksen applies mathematical methods to tackle concrete problems. A central question in his research is how to reduce massive amounts of data into something workable, without losing essential ...

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Could math predict humanity’s end? The Carter catastrophe suggests we might be living closer to the finale than we realize.

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

This interesting study adapts machine learning tools to analyze movements of a chromatin locus in living cells in response to serum starvation. The machine learning approach developed is useful, the ...

What is a population viability analysis (PVA)? How is one conducted, and what can it tell us about the likelihood that a species will go extinct? The discipline of Conservation Biology has two general ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A Cuyahoga Community College biology class on a field trip to the Chagrin River made a startling discovery: a crayfish with a rare genetic mutation, splitting its body into two ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was handed out to people for pulling off what Marvel writers only pretend to understand: showing that quantum weirdness isn’t confined to subatomic particles. They ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

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