For children, the world is full of surprises. Adults, on the other hand, are much more difficult to surprise. And there are complex processes behind this apparently straightforward state of affairs.

Snorkeling NC rivers, the ecological role of hemlocks and the ethical implications of AI. The surprisingly colorful and environmentally important world beneath the surface of NC’s rivers, the role ...

New research from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience shows that chandelier cells, a specific type of brain cell, become active during unexpected situations. 'Researchers have been wondering ...

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The Ig Nobel awards are a salute to achievements that, in the words of the organizers, “make people laugh, then think.” Each year, the editors of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable ...

Beneath the salt-saturated waters of the Great Salt Lake in the United States lies a major surprise: a vast freshwater reservoir extending as a deep network. To unveil this network, a team from the ...

If you run a quick web search on "machine learning use cases," you will find pages and pages of links to documents describing machine learning (ML) algorithms to detect or predict some kind of event ...