Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span
New study in Nature Communications finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a 'social acceleration' occurring across ...
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The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
Credit: Santa Fe Institute Press Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete -- roughly speaking, they believe that it ...
Clear sight in the data fog with PAGA
The fate of individual cells in the body is relevant in many ways. Researchers want to study developmental processes and ...
Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in elementary school, meta-analysis finds
Finding suggests that factors other than biology may be important in driving gender differences in spatial skills It is well-established ...
New computer model automatically, aesthetically crops photos
Credit: Courtesy: James Wang and Jia Li / Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Computers can now automatically crop photos ...
Who will win the Game of Thrones?
Machine learning algorithm predicts who will be left standing in "Game of Thrones"Credit: GoT-Team 2019 / TUM Shortly before the ...
Three K-12 educators win AIAA Foundation Educator Achievement Awards
Honored for efforts to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educationCredit: n/a Three K-12 educators from across the United States ...
New project promises more robust and agile mobile networks
TAPIR-CM will pave the path for beyond 5G networksCredit: © IMDEA Networks Institute A 4-year research project called TAPIR-CM, launched ...
New algorithm helps to detect and analyze suspicious activity in surveillance footage
BINGHAMTON, NY - New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, could make it easier to track and ...
The cost of computation
For decades, physicists have wrestled with understanding the thermodynamic cost of manipulating information, what we would now call computing. How ...
9 projects supported by Russian Science Foundation
Each will receive 4 to 6 million rubles of funding per year Nine projects of Ural Federal University (UrFU) researchers ...
Understanding stock market returns: Which models fits best?
Understanding stock market returns hinges on understanding their volatility. Two simple but competing models have been dominant for decades: the ...
New machine learning model describes dynamics of cell development
In order to address this problem, researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Massachusetts use pseudodynamics, a ...
Scientists develop way to perform supercomputer simulations of the heart on cellphones
RIT associate professor Elizabeth Cherry helped develop the cardiac dynamics modeling method You can now perform supercomputer simulations of the ...
Seven young scientists to receive President of Russia grants for 2019/2020
Competition results have been announced The winners are as follows: Ramil Nasibullin, Associate Professor, Department of the Theory of Functions ...
Videos to tell the youngest generations about science
The UC3M's FECYT projectCredit: UC3M This project, named "Science is coming: the science that is creating your future", will address ...
What Americans know about science
Americans with more formal education fare better on science-related questions, while Republicans and Democrats are roughly similar in their overall ...
RIT faculty earns award to study how to help more students become scientists, engineers
Study will assess how experiential learning improves interest, retention and career preparation A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has earned ...
Biophysicists use machine learning to understand, predict dynamics of worm behavior
Biophysicists have used an automated method to model a living system -- the dynamics of a worm perceiving and escaping ...
Florida Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2019 inductees
Lights, camera, invent! Hollywood icon and inventor Hedy Lamarr, ATM creator Luther Simjian, and hybrid motor pioneer Thomas Lipo among ...
