Number Literacy/General Statistics

Credit: © 2019 KAUST Plant scientists are striving to cultivate crops that can cope with saline soils in the hope that this may help feed the world's growing population, particularly in the face of climate change. Now, KAUST researchers…

ORNL team partners with Electric Power Board to test energy savings on building simulatorCredit: Joshua New, ORNL Buildings use 40 percent of America's primary energy and 75 percent of its electricity, which can jump to 80 percent when a…

Language proficiency has an important influence on learners' ability to answer scientific questions a new joint study by Lancaster and Sheffield Universities has found. Language proficiency has an important influence on learners' ability…

'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version takes aim at 2019-2020.Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., October 22,…

Researchers examine crash risk, crash exposure and the built environmentCredit: Florida Atlantic University How dangerous is travel in the United States? It depends on how you frame the question. If it's risk per kilometer, the U.S. has…

WASHINGTON -- New brain imaging research debunks a controversial theory about dyslexia that can impact how it is sometimes treated, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say. The cerebellum, a brain structure…

Artificial intelligence and a devoted European supercomputer would allow climate models to produce real-time forecasts for specific locations What exactly is computer science's role in addressing climate change? What are the most effective…

200 young talents Provide 200 mathematicians and computer scientists the opportunity to network with peers from utterly different backgrounds and enthusiasm is a natural by product. Find out what drives the young scientists, what…

Researchers determine how much waves are likely to change around the globe due to climate change. A team of researchers led by Griffith University has mapped out how much waves are likely to change around the globe under climate change and…

It identifies the relevant factors that affect estimates of these remaining carbon budgets and thereby untangles the differences to make estimates more easily comparable, which will help decision-makers in using them. From a climate…