Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to predict a person's sex based on their job type, eye color and country of residence. Naive Bayes classification is a classical machine learning ...

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May 11, 2026 • 25 years ago, the FDA approved a pill that would change the way scientists treat cancer … for good. The pill was called Gleevec; it was designed specifically to treat CML, chronic ...

Most scientific fields have been made over with a revolutionary theory at least once in recent centuries. Such makeovers, or paradigm shifts, reorder old knowledge into a new framework. Revolutionary ...

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The molecule cAMP, which plays essential roles in mammalian cells, is less well understood in plants. In a new Science Advances paper, researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

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The U.S. has pressed Argentina and Chile to review two Chinese telescope projects in the Andean deserts. Astronomers are worried about setbacks to research. By Emma BubolaEdward Wong and Sarah Pabst ...

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers. “It seems every other day I am reading a story about a ...

Behavioral science describes the study of human behavior through the use of systematic experimentation and observation. Behavioral scientists study when and why individuals engage in specific ...