Allowing for “consensus choice” would improve ranked-choice voting in the commonwealth, Better Choices for Democracy’s Carah Ong Whaley writes.

Abstract: Fluid factors play an important role in reservoir fluid identification. Current fluid factor inversion methods rely on the exact Zoeppritz equations and their approximations, which neglect ...

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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 ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...

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.

Researchers are trying to come up with new, better ways to test AI. As a tech reporter I often get asked questions like “Is DeepSeek actually better than ChatGPT?” or “Is the Anthropic model any good?

Part of the appeal of sports is that, between the whistles, anything can happen. While many major sports mitigate that unpredictability during the postseason—if you need to win three or four contests ...