A recent study has revealed that specific patterns of gene activity serve as a hidden map that guides the complex wiring of ...

In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people ...

Netflix's hidden genre codes bypass the algorithm entirely and drop you straight into whatever category you're actually in ...

Oxygen depletion in the western Baltic Sea is not uncommon. Oxygen-poor conditions regularly occur in deeper waters, placing ...

I was never that much into knitting tbh.

In times past, when we wanted to know which team would win the World Cup, we had to turn to seers with crystal balls, use ...

Data science and machine learning algorithms can help us form probabilistic forecasts of things like sporting events.

Jeremiah Blocki, jblocki+451@cs.cmu.edu: Monday @ 3:30 PM. GHC 7th floor lounge. Students can email me if they want to meet at a different time. Anvesh Komuravelli, anvesh+451@cs.cmu.edu: Friday @ 4 ...

Abstract: Despite the recent development of distributed constrained optimization algorithms in the literature, it is still a challenging issue to construct distributed algorithms to efficiently solve ...

Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we're prone to seeing patterns where they don't actually exist. This behavior is so common there's ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In a significant breakthrough that can have profound implications for digital and online security, an Indian research group has developed new quantum techniques to generate and certify truly random ...