A team of physicists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology has calculated more precisely how much faster time passes on the moon than on the Earth. The paper describing the math they used to make the calculations and their results has been posted to the arXi...
Breakdancing will hit the global stage at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and this physicist is excited to break down the science
A Q&A with physicist David Politzer about solving the mystery of the strong force more than 50 years ago.
Des chercheuses québécoises, dont une expat française, cherchent à comprendre pourquoi les Français établis au Canada adoptent des expressions locales. Elles o...
Cheap and calorie-filled, the rapid foodstuff tells us about the state of the world
Operators are developing creative solutions for putting AI on satellites, a challenge that comes with myriad technical and logistical obstacles.
New studies on the experience of impatience suggest there’s more to it than simply how long you’ve been left hanging
What lurks below doesn’t always stay beneath the sand.
Wisconsin took down its dropout predictions after a Markup investigation. Here’s what two students we featured have to say
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A team of SETI Institute scientists has unveiled new insights into a cosmic mystery known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The discovery and detailed observation of the repeating FRB 20220912A, made at the SETI Institute's refurbished Allen Telescope Array (ATA), shed light on the nature of these space ...
A new study ranks Canada behind three other countries in responding to parasite outbreaks.
A shocking study found that only three per cent of Canadian human research trials testing new drug treatments or therapies meet all three international criteria.
The article includes the following highlights:
> [O]nly three per cent of Canadian human research trials testing new drug treatments or therapies meet all three international criteria that ensure fair and timely sharing of results for all to learn from. Its authors say the look at whether these trials are properly registered, with results reported and formally published, serves as a clear warning that researchers may be wasting millions of dollars of funding, along with patients’ time and effort.
> "Our data shows that there's basically no public record of many trial results... I think it's (scary) really," said Kelly Cobey, a co-author of the study, associate professor at the University of Ottawa and researcher at the university's Heart Institute.
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> The question posed by the research team was to determine how many followed the World Health Organization guidelines from 2015, which specify that: clinical trials must be registered before they begin to ensure they follow a pre-planned design; that key findings are made publicly available within a year of the study’s completion; and that the results are published in a journal at most two years after completion, "regardless of the outcome."
> Of the Canadian trials studied, however:
- only 59 per cent were registered before enrolling participants to ensure a public record of ongoing trials;
- 32 per cent (2,138 studies) never reported their results, nor published their findings, according to the study; and
- only 3 per cent (123 studies) met all three criteria.
The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
The early years of the pandemic had a dramatic impact on kids. High schoolers are not okay. We need to find solutions to help them thrive.
This was an interesting article to me, as it's rare to read about a professional with a mathematics PhD and an established career in academia as a Professor of Mathematics who decided to do an online Master's in Computer Science.
The main idea of her account is that the credential helped open some doors to move to a Computer Science department.
Independent outlets explain how traffic and engagement have plummeted overnight after Meta blocked news from its platforms.
