What are type I and type II errors?
There are different ways to track and prevent type-I and type-II errors. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: Quilia/Unsplash A: The null hypothesis is a cornerstone of scientific experiments. It is…
There are different ways to track and prevent type-I and type-II errors. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: Quilia/Unsplash A: The null hypothesis is a cornerstone of scientific experiments. It is…
Recent incidents have amplified calls on AI companies to slow their development cycles. | Photo Credit: Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash More than 200 artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity researchers have called for…
For hundreds of years, science has operated with a social contract: science develops knowledge that improves the human condition and expands the range of what is possible while society provides…
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”, has brought renewed attention…
When a dying star runs out of fuel and sheds its outer layers, its remaining core can become an approximately Earth-sized, extremely dense stellar remnant called a ‘white dwarf’. |…
In this photo taken on August 17, 2021, a polar bear is seen on ice floes in the British Channel in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. | Photo Credit: AFP…
Representative photo. | Photo Credit: File photo Unusual rains of 2024 could be earth’s new normal The year 2024 experienced a record-breaking number of heavy and extreme rainfall events worldwide,…
A Computer Aided Design (CAD) view of the TRISHNA satellite. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Indo-French satellite TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) will be…
STORY SO FAR: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for showing that it is possible to amplify a molecule’s “handedness,” and…
The Joint Action Council (JAC), representing nine Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) employees’ associations, have sought a meeting with the Chairperson of the space agency, Dr. V. Narayanan, to discuss…