The COVID-19 vaccines that are currently available across the world have beenshown to prevent serious illness and death. They don't all work the same way. But no matter the vaccine technology, the end result of extensive clinical trials has been the same: the immune system is ...
they are potentially helping the world find solutions. Procaccia has used fair division algorithms (算法) to model food distribution. Social scientist Haris Aziz is exploring situations ranging from how to divide up daily tasks to how to best sch...
Be a Collector activities pack introduces kids to the world of making collections through the eyes of a scientist. What will they collect first? Know the Words Science vocabulary pack includes flashcards, crosswords, and word searches that illuminate keywords in the experiments! My science journal ...
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Another problem is that people struggle to identify reliable sources of information. For example when faced with somebody off the street telling a story about their experience or a scientist explains an evidence-based position, some will often place more trust in the story. That’s not a reliabl...
In my pre-natal research, I learned the importance of vaccination for public health – that we protect everyone, but especially our most vulnerable, by creating herd immunity with vaccines. I also started reading about adverse vaccine reactions, and as I grew Oscar inside my very own body I ...
(This is nicely discussed in Robert Matthews’ New Scientist article “The power of one“; this article can also be found on the web at a number of other places.) In a somewhat analogous spirit, Zipf’s law and the Pareto distribution can be used to mathematically test various models of...
Statistics is so unique because it can go from health outcomes research to marketing analysis to the longevity of a light bulb. It’s a fun field because you really can do so many different things with it. Besa Smith President and Senior Scientist ...
Viktor Grebennikov came to mind, the Russian scientist who found that the wing covers of certain bugs had a definite anti-gravity effect. He collected a lot of those wing covers and experimented. Mounted on a board, they would lift him into the air when standing on it. Grebennikov devised...
Digitizationis simply the translation of analog data into a digital format. An example of digitization is scanning a sheet from a paper lab notebook to create a PDF. In this scenario, the scientist creates a digital record of something inherently analog, but their business process is still anal...