Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that carries the instructions from DNA to create specific proteins. The main applications for mRNA include immunotherapy, protein ...

I previously talked about measurements (some) when I looked at the uncertainty in the distance to the Sun. One of the simple ways of determining the uncertainty of a calculated quantity is to use the ...

The VISTA telescope observed the Trifid Nebula, identifying previously hidden variable stars. These variable stars exhibit a period-luminosity relationship, meaning their intrinsic brightness is ...

Yang, Mochen, Edward McFowland III, Gordon Burtch, and Gediminas Adomavicius. "Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach ...

Value-at-risk and expected shortfall (ES) are ubiquitous in finance. They are used by banks and asset managers to estimate the risk of portfolios. Regulators use them to set capital requirements. To ...

When repeated measures of an exposure variable are obtained on individuals, it can be of epidemiologic interest to relate the slope of this variable over time to a subsequent response.

New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that ...