It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

Two centuries after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a few strands of his hair have given scientists their clearest view yet of ...

For more than a century, scientists have argued over what really drives cancer, yet the pieces of the puzzle have rarely fit ...

Objective To develop and validate a 10-year predictive model for cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CVMD) risk using ...

Northeastern University researchers used an original machine learning tool to predict how genetic mutations cause a rare ...

Astronomers have discovered a new, previously unnoticed concentration of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, dubbed the 'inner ...

Artificial intelligence can both worsen fraud through sophisticated scams and help combat it by detecting suspicious patterns ...

This study presents a valuable tool named TSvelo, a computational framework for RNA velocity inference that models transcriptional regulation and gene-specific splicing. The evidence supporting the ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...