Formal science news

Pigeons outperform humans at the Monty Hall Dilemma

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:23:32 +0000

Humans are spectacularly bad with thinking about the Monty Hall problem and perform worse than pigeons.

The Ig Nobels are out! And the winners are....

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:10:06 +0000

The winners of the 2009 Ig Nobels have been awarded.

Spam or Ham?

Fri, 15 May 2009 01:30:13 +0000

A new approach to spam filtering could use your web browsing habits to help your email program filter out spam and find the ham.

Social Networking for Terrorists

Tue, 05 May 2009 02:45:41 +0000

Social networks could be analyzed to reveal the nodes that act as hubs and trace back to individual planners and perpetrators, which when applied to the 9/11 terrorist attacks correctly inferred important individuals responsible for the attacks.

The AlloSphere: Flying through a giant virtual brain?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:48:28 +0000

UCSB develops the Allosphere, a three-story cube that allows researchers to immerse themselves in a three-dimensional visualization of scientific data.

Enter Adam, the Robot Scientist

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:10:26 +0000

A robot makes its own scientific discoveries as it designs hypotheses and carries out experiments to confirm them, discovering which genes code for specific enzymes in a species of yeast.