Data Science

Hurricane Helene shows how broken the American insurance system is

By comparison, the North Carolina insurance market looks pretty good. No insurer has left the state since 2008, and homeowners pay an average of...

How to apply R for text mining

Photo by editor | Ideogram Text mining helps us extract critical information from enormous amounts of text. R is a useful tool for text...

There are no coal-fired power stations in the UK for the first time in 142 years

On Monday, the UK closed its last operating coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which had been in operation since 1968. The closure of the 2,000-megawatt...

A lawsuit filed by supporters of the “startup city” could lead Honduras to bankruptcy

According to him, the avalanche of private contracts has become part of a "kleptocratic" regime. one report from 2017 by the Carnegie Endowment for...

These record-breaking up-to-date solar panels produce 60 percent more electricity

THIS ARTICLE IS HERE republished from Conversation under a Creative Commons License.The sight of solar panels installed on roofs and immense energy farms has...

The key role of the vagus nerve in creating the human sense of mind

Original version With this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.It's slow at night. You're alone and wandering the empty streets looking for your parked car...

The leak from the International Space Station is getting worse and is keeping NASA awake at night

U.S. space officials don't like to talk about the dangers of astronauts flying on the aging International Space Station, whose components are now more...

Titan’s underwater interrogations end with some solid answers. Here’s what happens next

Another surprising omission came during Thursday's testimony of Mark Negley, a Boeing engineer. Negley conducted the initial design study for titanium and has assisted...