New Scientist

The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...
Christian Science Monitor

Hong Kong mirrors China’s larger challenges on trust

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
BMJ

Assessing the early effects of Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act on adolescent social media use

Australia has caught the world’s attention by banning social media for children under 16. Although this is commonly phrased as banning children from accessing social media, in Australia, as in most ...
Wall Street Journal

China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race

Chinese artificial-intelligence systems have matched the performance of Anthropic’s powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios, a development poised to reset the global tech race and ...
STAT

Supreme Court ruling on Roundup points to a confusing difference between the law and science

Smolak is an epidemiologist with the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. When the Supreme Court handed Monsanto a major win in Roundup litigation on Thursday, the ...
IEEE

On the Use of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method in Control Design and Systems Theory

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.
IEEE

Finding Optimizations for Trading Using Search Economy Algorithms

Abstract: The development of artificial intelligence has led to the rapid growth of various industries. In addition to driving innovative applications, it has also brought significant changes to daily ...