When an outbreak of an infectious disease begins to spread, policymakers face an unenviable challenge. They must decide when to intervene and how forcefully, knowing that their choices carry both ...

Mellon/ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Dissertation Innovation Fellowships support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who show promise of leading their fields in ...

The problem of estimating the parameters which determine a mixture density has been the subject of a large, diverse body of literature spanning nearly ninety years. During the last two decades, the ...

Kacey explores the reasons behind an incredibly popular Instagram post. Trump says he's ready to put 'major sanctions' on Russia if NATO nations do the same Paramount denounces boycott of Israeli film ...

Vol. 55, No. 1 & 2, Special Volume: Remembering the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of W.E.B. Du Bois and the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (SUMMER/WINTER 2018), pp. 9-37 (29 ...

'EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin line between science and fun. EVE Online has been around for what feels ...

Diploid assembly is a difficult task that requires several types of genomic sequencing data, including — but not limited to — HiFi reads and parental sequences. Hypo-assembler, an assembly algorithm, ...

HOUSTON – (Sept. 3, 2025) – Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data inherently “noisy.” Rice University computer scientists ...

Actor Ryan Reynolds told attendees at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Friday that he is not "MAGA" or "extreme anything," recalling a moment when he suggested swapping phones with a ...

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, says that addictive algorithms cause polarisation and should be made illegal, but he does not regret "opening Pandora's box" with his invention. Words ...