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As U.S. election looms, this ‘rumor researcher’ tracks—and combats—falsehoods in real time

Kate Starbird’s work at the Center for an Informed Public has made her the target of political attacks

Explainable machine learning by SEE-Net: closing the gap between interpretable models and DNNs

Synced explanation-enhanced neural network (SEE-Net)We develop a model called Relational-Class Logistic Regression (Rec-LR) which achieves high accuracy by exploiting the power of DNN in training an explainable...

Some brain disorders are “chaperonopathies” | Science

Mutations that impair a protein-folding chaperone can lead to brain malformations

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New gene-editing tool found in bacterium could carry out extensive genome remodelling | Research

Bacteria are known to use ‘jumping genes’ to reorder their genome and fast-forward evolution. Now, scientists have discovered a mobile genetic element from this...

Woolly mammoths were inbred, but this didn’t lead to population collapse

A bottleneck event caused inbreeding in the last woolly mammoths, but scientists find this was not responsible for their demise on Wrangel Island. Once prevalent...

The Main Types of Chemical Reactions

The Main Types of Chemical Reactions A chemical reaction may be regarded as the process that occurs when matter undergoes change in composition. To be...

A peak behind the (hosting) scenes of this blog.

A peak behind the (hosting) scenes of this blog. I should start by saying that the server on which this blog is posted was set...

Why did I take my blanket for a walk in the woods? – Naturally Speaking

Will McLellan takes us on a tour of his work on tick density in human-impacted environments. What are you studying? The word ‘tick’, to most people,...

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