As leaders of a developing field, data scientists often have to grapple with a frustratingly slippery question: What is data science, precisely, and what is it for? Alfred Spector is a visiting scholar in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), an influential developer of distributed computing systems and applications, and a successful …
Artificial intelligence provider DataRobot is launching DataRobot Notebooks, a fully integrated laptop solution within the DataRobot AI platform that enables data scientists to collaborate on code-first workflows with one-click access to embedded laptops. DataRobot Notebooks streamline the code development experience for data science workflows, with an emphasis on automation, reproducibility, scalability and collaboration, according …
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Savages rarely practice. It caught me a bit off guard in my first year on the beat. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a team skate that little on non-game days, and that includes 10 years covering the Lightning. “It sure has been the least important team I’ve ever been on,” …
Around a thousand years ago, an astonishing series of spur roads were built throughout the Four Corners area, focusing on the Chaco Canyon region. Here, Science Moab chats with archaeologist and anthropologist Rob Weiner, whose research focuses on these monumental trails built by the ancestors of the Pueblo and Diné peoples. Weiner studies at the …
AUSTIN—Like most bees, bumblebees are having a tough time. Pesticides, habitat loss, light pollution, and parasites have led to sharp declines in their populations, more than 75% in the few places where researchers have tracked the insects for long periods of time. Now, scientists have identified a new way that global warming may be affecting …
Scientists and journal specialists are concerned that the increasing sophistication of chatbots could undermine the integrity and accuracy of research.Credit: Ted Hsu/Alamy An artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can write bogus research paper summaries so convincing that scientists often can’t spot them, according to a preprint posted to the bioRxiv server in late December.one. Researchers are …
Patrick [No C] Walker joined the Dallas Cowboys digital media group as a writer and media personality in July 2022, having professionally covered the NFL and more specifically the Cowboys since 2007. He most recently did so for CBS Sports via 247Sports, where he also spent time delving into college recruiting and ultimately became known …
On January 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health-Uganda declared that the recent Ebola outbreak in the country has ended. The WHO can declare an end to an epidemic when no confirmed or probable cases are reported for twice the incubation period of Ebola infections, or 42 days. The outbreak in …
When I moved from Germany to the Netherlands two years ago, one small detail about my new home country struck me as odd: there was almost no peat-free potting soil. Frankly, this topic has never been a big part of my life, but ever since a friend told me years ago ‘don’t buy peat, it’s …
weightlifting It is a single-celled organism covered in cilia, or tiny hairs, that help it move through the water. He has an appetite for viruses. (Image credit: Proyecto Agua via flickr; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)) Are viruses the new gourmet food of the day? Perhaps for the tiny single-celled organisms that live in freshwater bodies around …