Much of running a small business is a gamble, buoyed by boldness, intuition and guts. But wise business leaders also conduct formal and informal research to inform their business decisions. Good ...

Piller is an investigative journalist for Science. In November 2022, Dennis Selkoe, a Harvard professor of neurologic diseases and among the most celebrated and prolific Alzheimer’s researchers, ...

NASA-funded researchers recently obtained the first complete proof of a 50-year-old hypothesis explaining how liquid metals resist turning into solids. NASA-funded researchers recently obtained the ...

Power analyses and sample size calculations are important parts of many research projects. Often, before data are even collected, it is necessary to calculate and justify the required sample size for ...

In the Neyman-Pearson theory of hypothesis testing it is customary to calculate significance levels and power functions on the assumption that the sample size is fixed. The main purpose of this paper ...

Distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) and source coding are interrelated domains that address the challenges of reliable communication and decision-making in networked systems. In DHT, multiple nodes ...

Think back to elementary school during which you learned about a seemingly useless mathematical relic called prime numbers. Your teacher told you in class one day that they are special numbers, ...

Researchers have some new evidence about what makes birds make so much noise early in the morning, and it's not for some of the reasons they previously thought. For decades, a dominant theory about ...

The twin deficits hypothesis has long been central to macroeconomic debates, positing that a government’s chronic fiscal deficit may generate or exacerbate a current account deficit. This ...

Biologists at Georgia Tech have provided scientific support for a controversial hypothesis that has divided biologists for two years. Biologists at Georgia Tech have provided scientific support for a ...