When most people hear "polymer," they think of plastics. In our group, polymerization is a way to line up identical molecules like beads on a string and let quantum mechanics take over. Put magnetic ...

The EU is threatening to take action against the social media company. It could be the start of a global reckoning. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

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“I ordered raspberries. They send me cauliflowers.” That’s how a Californian shopper described their online grocery experience buying groceries from Walmart using the Instacart app. Our fieldwork has ...

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Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

This package provides a Python implementation of the Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) algorithm described by Carlson & Ripley (1997). It converts NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) data to ...