AI is reengineering drug discovery by speeding up testing and scanning petabytes of data for connections between diseases

Skolnick has developed AI-based approaches to predict protein structure and function that may help with drug discovery and ...
Analytics Insight

Top 10 Mistakes Every Data Scientist Must Avoid in 2026

Overview: Poor data validation, leakage, and weak preprocessing pipelines cause most XGBoost and LightGBM model failures in production.Default hyperparameters, ...
UVA Today

In memoriam: Philip Bourne, founding dean of the School of Data Science

Philip E. Bourne, founding dean of the School of Data Science and an international leader in the field who positioned the University of Virginia as a pioneering institution for data studies, died ...
IEEE

Implementation of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) Algorithm in A Bridge Damage Detection and Location Search System Based on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

Abstract: This paper describes the use of a bridge model equipped with 18 Pasco Load Cell accelerometer sensors for the measurement of changes in vibration frequency with variations in load (25%, 50%, ...
The Economist

Data centres in space: less crazy than you think

ELON MUSK thinks it will be feasible ā€œwithin two years, maybe three at the latestā€. Sam Altman of OpenAI says it is ā€œridiculousā€¦we are not there yetā€. Google plans to test the concept next year. Eric ...
HUB

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship comes to Johns Hopkins

This summer, Johns Hopkins will host a graduate student fellowship designed to prepare emerging data scientists to leverage the latest developments in generative artificial intelligence and machine ...
Forbes

AIā€™s Real Bottleneck Isnā€™t Algorithms, Itā€™s The Rare Earths Of Data

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gary Drenik is a writer covering AI, analytics and innovation. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice ...
Popular Science

Astronomers close in on long-lost Soviet lunar lander

šŸ›ļø Amazon Big Spring Sale: 100+ editor-approved deals worth buying right now šŸ›ļø By Andrew Paul Published Feb 9, 2026 4:01 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred ...
The New York Times

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ā€˜Race Scienceā€™

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...
VentureBeat

X open sources its algorithm: 5 ways businesses can benefit

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...
Frontiers

Editorial: Optimization for low-rank data analysis: theory, algorithms and applications

Low-rank data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm across applied mathematics, statistics, and data science. With the rapid growth of modern datasets in size, dimensionality, and complexity, ...