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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes are a way to model autonomous robots’ behavior in circumstances where neither their communication with each other nor their judgments about the outside world are perfect.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - From a young age, Daniel Zhang, an MIT senior majoring in biology and chemistry, viewed the world around him as a dazzling array of molecules. Zhang asked all of the normal childhood questions - such as, “Why is the sky blue?” - but with two chemists for parents, his answers always came in the most literal, scientific form.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Today’s computer chips pack billions of tiny transistors onto a plate of silicon within the width of a fingernail. Each transistor, just tens of nanometers wide, acts as a switch that, in concert with others, carries out a computer’s computations. As dense forests of transistors signal back and forth, they give off heat - which can fry the electronics, if a chip gets too hot.
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Boulder, Colorado - A tougher federal standard for ozone pollution, under consideration to improve public health, would ramp up the importance of scientific measurements and models, according to a new commentary published in the June 5 edition of Science by researchers at NOAA and its cooperative institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Study finds that initial cell size determines growth before splitting, contradicting earlier studies
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Durham, North Carolina - There aren’t any giants or midgets when it comes to the cells in your body, and now Duke University scientists think they know why.
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Washington, DC - Contrary to popular belief, cyberbullying that starts and stays online is no more emotionally harmful to youngsters than harassment that only occurs in-person and may actually be less disturbing because it’s likelier to be of shorter duration and not involve significant power imbalances, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.
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