Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Space: Exploration
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Researchers discover source of super-fast electron 'rain'      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth's atmosphere, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis and poses hazards to satellites, spacecraft and astronauts.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Speaking from the heart: Could your voice reveal your heart health?      (via sciencedaily.com) 

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer algorithm accurately predicted a person's likelihood of suffering heart problems related to clogged arteries based on voice recordings alone.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Toward a quantum computer that calculates molecular energy      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses the most quantum bits to date to calculate ground state energy, the lowest-energy state in a quantum mechanical system. The discovery could make it easier to design new materials.

Mathematics: Statistics
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A first step towards quantum algorithms: Minimizing the guesswork of a quantum ensemble      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A quantum ensemble -- a set of quantum states with their corresponding probabilities -- is essential to the encoding of classical information for transmission over quantum channels. But receivers must be able to 'guess' the transmitted quantum state, incurring a cost called 'guesswork.' Recently, researchers have derived analytical solutions of the guesswork problem for when the ensemble is subject to a finite set of conditions. The results constitute a first step towards future algorithms for quantum software.

Mathematics: Statistics
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New insight into machine-learning error estimation      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists are evaluating machine-learning models using transfer learning principles.

Mathematics: Statistics
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New data analysis tool uncovers important COVID-19 clues      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new data analysis tool has revealed the specific immune cell types associated with increased risk of death from COVID-19.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Using artificial intelligence to find anomalies hiding in massive datasets      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have developed a computationally efficient method that could be used to identify anomalies in the U.S. power grid in real time. The novel technique augments a special type of machine-learning model with a powerful graph structure, and does not require any labeled data to train.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Navigation tools could be pointing drivers to the shortest route — but not the safest      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Time for a road trip. You punch the destination into your GPS and choose the suggested route. But is this shortest route the safest? Not necessarily, according to new findings.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Researchers use supercomputers for largest-ever turbulence simulations of its kind      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Despite being among the most researched topics on supercomputers, a fundamental understanding of the effects of turbulent motion on fluid flows still eludes scientists. A new approach aims to change that.

Mathematics: Statistics
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New computer vision system designed to analyse cells in microscopy videos      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have developed a system based on computer vision techniques that allows automatic analysis of biomedical videos captured by microscopy in order to characterize and describe the behavior of the cells that appear in the images.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Where mathematics and a social perspective meet data      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Community structure, including relationships between and within groups, is foundational to our understanding of the world around us.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Capturing hidden data for asymptomatic COVID-19 cases provides a better pandemic picture      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases are the bane of computer modelers' existences -- they throw off the modeling data to an unknown degree. A new approach explores using historic epidemic data from eight different countries to estimate the transmission rate and fraction of under-reported cases.

Mathematics: Statistics
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New computational tool predicts cell fates and genetic perturbations      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have built a machine learning framework that can define the mathematical equations describing a cell's trajectory from one state to another, such as its development from a stem cell into one of several different types of mature cell. The framework, called dynamo, can also be used to figure out the underlying mechanisms -- the specific cocktail of gene activity -- driving changes in the cell.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Space: The Solar System
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Ancient ice reveals mysterious solar storm      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Through analysis of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases -- during which it is generally believed our planet is less exposed to such events.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Enhanced statistical models will aid conservation of killer whales and other species      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Retrieving an accurate picture of what a tagged animal does as it journeys through its environment requires statistical analysis, especially when it comes to animal movement, and the methods statisticians use are always evolving to make full use of the large and complex data sets that are available. A recent study by researchers at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) and the UBC department of statistics has taken us a step closer to understanding the behaviours of northern resident killer whales by improving statistical tools useful for identifying animal behaviours that can't be observed directly.

Mathematics: Statistics
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How statistics can aid in the fight against misinformation      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Mathematicians created a statistical model that can be used to detect misinformation in social posts.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Grouping of immune cell receptors could help decode patients' personal history of infection      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Novel software for grouping immunological T-cell receptors may enable the identification of shared patterns that could be used to determine if a person has previously been infected or vaccinated against a given pathogen.

Geoscience: Geomagnetic Storms Space: The Solar System
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A lab in the sky: Physics experiment in Earth’s atmosphere could help improve GPS performance      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The Earth's atmosphere has been used as a 'laboratory' to carry out a physics experiment which could help to improve the performance of GPS.

Mathematics: Statistics
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New strategy for detecting non-conformist particles called anyons      (via sciencedaily.com) 

By observing how strange particles called anyons dissipate heat, researchers have shown that they can probe the properties of these particles in systems that could be relevant for topological quantum computing.

Mathematics: Statistics
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Calculating the path of cancer      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Scientists are using a new mathematical tool to predict how combinations of genetic mutations cause different types of tumors.