Physical Sciences

Nuisance Parameters In Classification Problems: A Simple Example

made, all background is classified as good, as is all signal; and for FPR=0, TPR=0 we are at x*=1- all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 13 2020 - 2:01pm

The Subtle Art Of Bump Hunting- Part I

the energy and angle of emission of all its decay products. A full reconstruction of the mass is not ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 27 2009 - 11:36am

Square Root Of The Universe

such a horizon as a white hole horizon. This all becomes rather vague and suggestive wordplay. For the ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Oct 16 2010 - 6:51pm

Seeing Armageddon In A Grain Of Sand

circling these buildings. Using newton's laws, we can compute ahead in time how all these objects ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Nov 7 2011 - 1:44am

Nanotech: The Most Dangerous Science Least Carefully Done

claim. All you would effectively be able to proof is your failure to reproduce a result. You will not ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 7 2016 - 11:21pm

With The Science Settled That Neonicotinoids Don't Cause Honeybee Problems, Why Does Europe Need To Ban Them?

survey of all the published scientific literature addressing each of these various permutations. It ...

Article - Jon Entine - Apr 26 2018 - 2:26pm

Could We See LHC Neutrinos In IceCube? The Answer, As Always, Is Five Sigma

there, which possibly allows IceCube to record its energy and direction. [One word of warning: as all the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 11 2020 - 5:02am

Smaller Is Stronger- And Here's The Science Reason Why

vanish. "Essentially all the dislocations escape from the crystal at the surface, and you do not get ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2008 - 10:30am

Superconducting 'Universal Toolkit' Takes X-Rays To The Nano Scale

Synchrotron Laboratory that were built at Cornell with public resources. ERL for All Cornell's Joel Brock ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2008 - 7:30am

A 'Missing Link' In Space? Maybe Not, But A Backward-Orbiting Object May Provide A New Origin For Comets Anyway

Earth and only a few 100 km in diameter: from this distance, all we see is a point of light shining back ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2008 - 5:29pm