KTOO

That figure you’ve heard on how much food Alaska imports? It’s not real.

The 95% number has been repeated so often, for so long, it’s become something like conventional wisdom. But experts aren’t ...

First-ever full Earth system simulation provides new tool to understand climate change

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling in recognition of their project "Computing the Full Earth System at 1 ...

Study describes how K-12 teachers used a virtual environment to explore mathematical concepts

When Old Town High School Math Teacher Kristen Thompson uses TriO—a virtual reality environment developed by researchers at ...
Quanta Magazine

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in ...
IEEE

ContCommRTD: A Distributed Content-Based Misinformation-Aware Community Detection System for Real-Time Disaster Reporting

Abstract: Real-time social media data can provide useful information on evolving hazards. Alongside traditional methods of disaster detection, the integration of social media data can considerably ...
Education Week

High-Achieving Black and Latino Students Are Often Shut Out of Algebra 1

Middle schoolers' access to the course is stratified along racial, socioeconomic, and regional lines, new research finds.