What can’t satellites do? They keep an eye on animals, track humanitarian crises, even help predict famines—and their above-ground perspective lets ground-bound observers find unexpected beauty in ...

Yesterday's post was a ringer. What you were actually looking at was a random distribution of earthquakes that I generated using the R statistical package. The earthquakes themselves are real (at ...

One of the most widely adopted of the seven patterns of AI is the Patterns and Anomalies pattern. Machine learning is particularly good at digesting large amounts of data very quickly and identifying ...

Pattern analysis makes for better image processing. Images on the right were compressed with the conventional JPEG format. Images on the left were reconstructed with a new technique that analyses ...

Finding patterns behind seemingly random events is the signature of a recent trio of research studies coming from the statistical physics group in Boston University's Department of Physics. Boston ...

Scientists are taking a forensic approach in their search for Mexico's disappeared, looking for enviornmental signatures to ...

For the first time, scientists have found that sleep can be detected by patterns of neuronal activity just milliseconds long, 1000 times shorter than a second, revealing a new way to study and ...

Rebecca Shutt, who works in the NYPD's Office of Crime Control Strategies, speaks about utilizing Patternizr in her work AP The NYPD has a new digital pattern-spotting partner to help connect crimes ...

McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander died ...

New research suggests that the way brain networks reorganize moment-to-moment predicts autism severity. Children who spent ...