For an academic researcher who first trained as a philosopher, then as a psychologist, Robyn Dawes was a practical fellow. He would tell a story from his time working in a psychiatric ward in the ...

Suppose Riemann's Zeta function is all proofed out. We will have discovered adamantium. God tells the prophet, "I have made your forehead like adamant, harder than flint." My comments were meant to ...

Hypothesis is a modern property based testing system designed for mainstream languages. The original version is for Python, where it works extremely well. This is a very rough prototype of what ...

Barefoot running has become a popular research topic, driven by the increasing prescription of barefoot running as a means of reducing injury risk. Proponents of barefoot running cite evolutionary ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life’s beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world hypothesis bridges the gap between non-living chemistry and the first cells ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion. The illusion is simple: one long horizontal line is flanked by arrowheads on ...

Getting the most out of A/B and other controlled tests by Ron Kohavi and Stefan Thomke In 2012 a Microsoft employee working on Bing had an idea about changing the way the search engine displayed ad ...

Piller is an investigative journalist for Science. In November 2022, Dennis Selkoe, a Harvard professor of neurologic diseases and among the most celebrated and prolific Alzheimer’s researchers, ...

What is a Gaussian Graphical Model ? A Gaussian graphical model captures conditional (in)dependencies among a set of variables. These are pairwise relations (partial correlations) controlling for the ...