Opening the Lid on Criminal Sentencing Software New technology aims to make recidivism prediction more accountable DURHAM, N.C. -- In 2013, a Wisconsin man named Eric Loomis was convicted of fleeing an officer...
Can We Teach Computers to Make Like Mendelssohn? Not yet. Robot composer good at emulating short snippets, but still hasn’t mastered melody DURHAM, N.C. -- If the field of machine learning had a holiday theme song, it might be...
Hau-tieng Wu: Vital Signs Bridging mathematics, statistics and medicine with new Duke professor Listen to your heartbeat with a stethoscope and you’ll hear a rhythmic lub-dub, lub-dub...
iPhone App Could Guide MS Research, Treatment Patients can track symptoms, share data right from their phone DURHAM, N.C. -- For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that’s needed to estimate...
Researchers Win $1.2M to Study Social Mobility in Meerkats International team from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. awarded a 3-year grant DURHAM, N.C. -- To learn what power dynamics mean for health, consider the meerkat. ...
Creative People Have Better-Connected Brains Highly creative people have significantly more nerve connections between the right and left hemispheres DURHAM, N.C. –- Seemingly countless self-help books and seminars tell you to tap into the...
