Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...

The company claims it’s a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to land-based centers. The company claims it’s a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to land-based ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to humans—became so complex. By comparing sea squirts, lampreys, and frogs, ...

Study unlocks the secrets of the whiskers on an elephant's trunk An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants ...

Data mining is the process of extracting potentially useful information from data sets. It uses a suite of methods to organise, examine and combine large data sets, including machine learning, ...

Planetary science is the study of the celestial bodies that orbit stars, with a particular focus on our own solar system. This includes studying the formation and evolution of planets, the moons and ...

A college dorm’s attempt to ‘catch a predator’ was disastrous. The fallout has changed lives — and isn’t over. A dorm room sting at Assumption University started as a bad idea among students and ...

Crossing Planetary Boundaries (PB)—a concept that defines nine potential ecological “tipping points”—could spell doom for ecosystems and humanity’s future on the planet. Of these PBs, humans have ...

How a new AI model could help us better understand noncoding DNA, how doctors kept a man alive without lungs for two days, and what a peculiar flower can teach us about evolution ...

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