At the end of the concrete plaza that forms the courtyard of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, there is a three-hundred-fifty-foot drop to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes people explore that ...

In the "This Paper Changed My Life" series, neuroscientists reflect on papers that have profoundly influenced their careers ...

Optimization problems can be tricky, but they make the world work better. These kinds of questions, which strive for the best way of doing something, are absolutely everywhere. Your phone’s GPS ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single numeric value. The demo uses stochastic gradient descent, one of two ...

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem. Many aspects of modern applied research ...

What level of difficulty is just right for learning? Source: Wavebreakmedia/iStock When children are learning to read, teachers often suggest a rule for picking an appropriate book. Count the words on ...

There's been a quest for sixty years to understand the structure of proteins, ever since Nobel Prize winners Max Perutz and John Kendrew in the 1950s gave the world the first glimpse of what a protein ...

What level of difficulty is just right for learning? Source: Wavebreakmedia/iStock When children are learning to read, teachers often suggest a rule for picking an appropriate book. Count the words on ...