Outdated assumptions about cost efficiency are costing firms millions, study suggests
Many companies are operating under the false assumption that diversifying their product lines will automatically lead to cost ...
The Quest for A.I. ‘Scientific Superintelligence’
An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
Harvard Business Review16d
Research: When Does Scientific Decision-Making Benefit Startups?
Founders know the mantra: make data-driven decisions. In recent years, the scientific approach to nurturing start-ups—developing hypotheses, collecting evidence that either supports or refutes ...
Frontiers24d
Basic assumptions, core connotations, and path methods of model modification—using confirmatory factor analysis as an example
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a widely used statistical method in social science. However, many published articles employing SEM appear to contradict its underlying principles and assumptions, ...
Scientific American26d
How Do You Cook a Perfect Egg? Scientists Have Figured It Out
Materials science PhD student Emilia Di Lorenzo and professor Ernesto Di Maio, both at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, typically work on methods for making polymers with layers of ...
The Atlantic27d
The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now
The system of scientific publishing is, as others have noted, under severe strain. Junk papers proliferate at vanity journals and legitimate ones alike, due in part to the “publish or perish ...
Medical Xpress29d
Unexpected X chromosome findings challenge assumptions about sex differences in human disease
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Unexpected findings reveal that skewed X chromosome inactivation, where one X chromosome is consistently inactivated across all cells, is more common than ...
The Washington Post29d
Trump’s NIH challenges the model that underlies U.S. scientific dominance
At Mark Peifer’s University of North Carolina lab, scientists study the elaborate machinery that cells use to communicate with one another, which often goes awry in colon cancer. Last week, the ...