Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Movie alignment software uses a 3D spline model to capture beam-induced motion in cryo-electron microscopy movie frames, correct local sample distortions, and improve two-dimensional template matching ...

Abstract: In this work, we developed an adaptive frequency sweep algorithm exploiting the Loewner matrix model. This algorithm requires two Loewner matrix models. In addition to the conventional ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Now that I know how fond chatbots are of the em dash — the thing I just used to convey a thought that intruded on ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

I’ve been teaching English for more than twenty years, long enough to watch punctuation trends come and go like fashion. The Oxford comma had its civil war. The semicolon had its fall from grace. But ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...

It seems a day does not go by without seeing someone confidently assert on social media that an em dash is not an indicator of AI-written text. Those social media posts are in response to an ongoing ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...