What our Milky Way might look like to alien astronomers: This image of NGC 2683, a spiral galaxy also known as the "UFO Galaxy" due to its shape, was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Since trying to find...
A research team led by Dr. Ajay Kumar invents a 3-D fingerprint identification system of high efficiency and accuracy.
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The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system for three-dimensional...
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Researchers from the CNRS, Thales, and the Universities of Bordeaux, Paris-Sud, and Evry have created an artificial synapse capable of learning autonomously. They were also able to model the device, which...
A $1 increase in the minimum wage would likely reduce the U.S. adolescent birth rate by about 2 percent, according to new Indiana University research. Image Credit:Flickr/Paul Sableman
A $1 increase in the minimum wage would likely reduce the U.S....
According to a new study, Americans who were married or living together had sex 16 fewer times per year in 2010-2014 compared to 2000-2004.Image Credit:Flickr/Cristiano Aguiar
While the topic of sex is less taboo than it was a generation ago,...
Researchers have found an explicit link between the colour of a taxi and its accident rate. Image Credit:Flickr/momotosaur
A recent study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found an explicit link between the colour...
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Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang did not set out to predict who would win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, their exhaustive, 14-month study of each candidate’s Twitter followers–enabled by machine learning and other data science tools–offers tantalizing...
Out of all age groups, children are still most likely to live in poverty, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Using the latest available...
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Political discussions about immigrants often include the claim that there is a relationship between immigration patterns and increased crime. However, results of a University at Buffalo-led study find no links between the two. In fact, immigration...
People with lower levels of education and wealth don't just have more pain, they also have more severe pain.Image credit:Flickr/Julian K.
Poorer and less-educated older Americans are more like to suffer from chronic pain than those with greater wealth...
Bangladesh poverty maps showing national estimates for wealth index (A), progress out of poverty index (B), and household income (C). Maps were generated using mobile data, satellite data, and Bayesian geostatistical models. Red indicates poorer areas. Credit: WorldPop
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