How can you tell if your mathematical model is good enough? In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University implemented a Turing test in the form of an online game (with over 1700 players) to assess how good their models ...
Mathematics
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When you're as soft and delicious as a cuttlefish, evading predators is a full-time job.
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2015
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Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators will not continue to use cellphone-tracking technology without first seeking a warrant, the IRS commissioner told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday.
Security
Dec 1, 2015
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Think about underground water and gas as they filter through porous materials like soil and rock beds. On Earth, gravity forces water and gas to separate as they flow through the ground, cleaning the water and storing it ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2015
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Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday he is a dad and pledged to give away his fortune to make the world a "better place" for baby daughter Maxima and others.
Business
Dec 1, 2015
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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are proposing a new way to process nuclear waste that uses a plasma-based centrifuge. Known as plasma mass filtering, the new ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 1, 2015
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Volkswagen's emissions-cheating scandal took a serious bite out of the company's U.S. sales last month.
Business
Dec 1, 2015
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More than 300 whales have been found washed up in a remote inlet in Patagonia in southern Chile in one of the largest die-offs on record, researchers said Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2015
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Engineers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental breakthrough in understanding the physics of photonic "sintering," which could lead to many new advances in solar cells, flexible electronics, various types of ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 1, 2015
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a 1932 opinion, wrote that a state could be a 'laboratory' for policy, and 'try novel social and economic experiments' on its own. We have since turned those words into today's ...
Social Sciences
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