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Women in Science Receive Less Credit for Their Contributions
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Women in Science Receive Less Credit for Their Contributions

Women in science are less likely than their male counterparts to receive authorship credit for the work they do, a new study finds.

Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm
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Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm

A group of Cornell physicists and computer scientists developed an unsupervised machine learning method that can automatically extract charge density wave order...

Researchers Hope Fireflies Will Aid Robot Communication
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Researchers Hope Fireflies Will Aid Robot Communication

Researchers from the University of Colorado are studying the Great Smoky Mountains' synchronous fireflies to determine whether understanding the way they communicate...

Researcher to Use Machine Learning to Improve Cancer Treatments
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Researcher to Use Machine Learning to Improve Cancer Treatments

Assistant Professor Tin Nguyen has received a $490,039 U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop machine learning techniques to determine how an...

Large Language Models Will Change Science
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Large Language Models Will Change Science

Advances in natural language processing and large language models are making it possible for machines to understand natural language, including the prose in scientific...

Computer Code May Help Speed Up Airport Security
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Computer Code May Help Speed Up Airport Security

The challenge of moving passengers and flight crews through airport security quickly while keeping safety precautions in place led to the Open Threat Assessment...

Using Math to Improve Your Workout
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Using Math to Improve Your Workout

Exercise physiologist and University of Montreal Adjunct Professor Guy Thibault is developing a web application for interval training.

CS Student Uses TikTok Dance Videos and AI to Generate 3D Avatars
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CS Student Uses TikTok Dance Videos and AI to Generate 3D Avatars

University of Minnesota computer science Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian has been using TikTok dance videos as food for a computer algorithm to construct lifelike...

Mathematical Shortcut Estimates Quantum Coherence Time
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Mathematical Shortcut Estimates Quantum Coherence Time

Scientists have uncovered a mathematical shortcut for approximating in an instant a material's quantum coherence time.

Has the Data Science Field Become Less Competitive?
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Has the Data Science Field Become Less Competitive?

A few mild yet significant signs indicate that data science as a job might be losing its sheen.

Automatic Information System Extracts Scientific Articles on COVID-19
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Automatic Information System Extracts Scientific Articles on COVID-19

A team of researchers created the VIGICOVID system that uses natural language questions to get answers in the avalanche of research papers on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV...

Top Computer Science Grad School Rankings Unveiled
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Top Computer Science Grad School Rankings Unveiled

Rankings based on a survey of academics for the best computer science graduate schools in the United States have been released.

Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned
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Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned

Data suggests that Russians are downloading and making local copies of Wikipedia, following reports that Russia's censorship office had threatened to block it. ...

Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm to Crack Crypto Keys
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Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm to Crack Crypto Keys

Researcher Hanno Böck reports breaking cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus by using Fermat's factorization method...

China's Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses
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China's Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses

Gig workers in China are using food-delivery platforms' data-driven systems, mass WeChat groups, and unofficial unions to fight unfair conditions.

Major Math Conference Will Not Be Held in Russia
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Major Math Conference Will Not Be Held in Russia

Organizers of the International Congress of Mathematicians, a prominent mathematical conference that was set to be held in Saint Petersburg in July, announced that...

Researchers Use AI to Fight Coronavirus
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Researchers Use AI to Fight Coronavirus

Michigan State University researcher Guowei Wei and his team used an artificial intelligence model to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying SARS-CoV-2...

Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls to Generate True Random Numbers
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Researchers Use Tiny Magnetic Swirls to Generate True Random Numbers

A group of Brown University physicists has developed a technique that can potentially generate millions of random digits per second by harnessing the behavior of...

Algorithm Has a Hunch About What You'll Buy Next
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Algorithm Has a Hunch About What You'll Buy Next

Researchers from UC Riverside and Instacart collaborators brought a methodology called tensor decomposition — used by scientists to find patterns in massive volumes...

Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for some of the most difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve...
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