A living cell constantly needs to process information. It distinguishes threats from opportunities and determines when to divide versus when to die. According to Luca Cardelli, “cells would not ...

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The last few decades have seen an explosion of data in fields such as biology, medicine, and genomics. Some of the methods used to analyze these large data sets are outdated and in need of an update, ...

Mathematician and OKCupid founder Christian Rudder and his team have written an online application that analyzes your Facebook network to predict the strength of your relationships. In his new book ...

New software algorithms reduce the time and material needed to produce objects with 3-D printers. Here, the wheel on the left was produced with conventional software and the one on the right with the ...

Sept. 11, 2001, means many things — and conflicting things — to each of us. Charged emotions, and debates over a history that's still so recent, made it really hard to design the National September 11 ...