Tim Harford: Without my fitness tracker I’d never have run so far. Or behaved so weirdly

Twenty-five centuries ago, after the Greeks shattered the Persian army at Marathon, brave Pheidippides ran 26 miles to Athens ...
Open Heart

Severe aortic stenosis detection using seismocardiography

Background Patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) are at high risk of mortality, regardless of symptom status. Despite ...
Education Week

How the Vocabulary Math Teachers Use Affects Student Learning

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Eye for trouble: Automated counting for chromosome issues under the microscope

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...
STAT

FDA to lower number of trials required for approval of drugs, other medical products

Lizzy Lawrence leads STAT’s coverage of the Food and Drug Administration. She was previously a medical devices reporter. You can reach Lizzy on Signal at lizzylaw.53. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug ...
IEEE

Evaluation of K-Means Algorithm for Faulted Landforms Extraction and Offset Measurement With an Example From the Eastern Kunlun Fault

Abstract: Accurate offset measurement is crucial for recovering the size of past earthquakes and understanding the recurrence patterns of strike-slip faults. Traditional methods, which rely on manual ...
Cinema Blend

TikTok Convinced Me To Watch The First Two Seasons Of Alaskan Bush People, And Here's Why I'll Keep Going

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It all started with a few clips on my TikTok account, and a week later, I've binged through the ...
NPR

2 Senators want to hold big tech accountable for harms caused by algorithms

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for ...
Sports Illustrated

Rockets’ Alperen Sengun Ranks as Eighth-Best Number Two Option in NBA

Alperen Sengun’s NBA career has been a bit of an obstacle course. He was drafted outside of the draft lottery in 2021, while Jalen Green was selected second overall. In other words, Green was expected ...
pix11

Two MTA number lines to get open gangway subway trains in 2025-2029 Capital Plan

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — The MTA is on a fast track to the future with two more subway lines set to get the R262 open gangway trains soon. The No. 1 and No. 6 lines are expected to be the next to get ...
GitHub

Optimal Rubik's Cube Solver

This project includes two Rubik's Cube solvers, an optimal solver, and a Two-Phase / Kociemba's algorithm solver. The optimal solver takes an average of around 60 seconds to find a minimal length ...