News tagged with coin flip
Heads or tails? It all depends on some key variables
Everyone knows the flip of a coin is a 50-50 proposition. Only it's not. You can beat the odds. So says a three-person team of Stanford and UC-Santa Cruz researchers. They produced a provocative study that turns conventional ...
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Stanford scholars examine big money's influence on elections
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United resulted in an unprecedented wave of independent – and strikingly negative – political advertising.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 22, 2012 |
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Quantum strategy offers game-winning advantages, even without entanglement
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum correlations have well-known advantages in areas such as communication, computing, and cryptography, and recently physicists have discovered that they may help players competing in ...
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Researchers explain why the man in the moon faces Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of us see a man in the moon—a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The "face," of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria (smooth ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Explained: Sigma
It's a question that arises with virtually every major new finding in science or medicine: What makes a result reliable enough to be taken seriously? The answer has to do with statistical significance -- but ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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How to decide who keeps the car: Tossing quantum coins moves closer to reality
Alice and Bob have broken up and have moved as far away from each other as possible. But they still have something to sort out: who gets to keep the car. Flipping a coin while talking on the phone to decide who gets to keep ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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BYU statistician calculates uncertainty of aging U.S. nukes
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you test a not-so-young nuclear stockpile for the effects of age when you can’t detonate any for the sake of finding out?
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Tallis was right: Numbers predict home win for QLD
Gorden Tallis, a Queensland Maroon legend, caused quite a stir prior to State of Origin II by suggesting on national television that the Maroons have a bigger home field advantage because Queensland fans are ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Beam line 13 fuels discovery fever for fundamental physicists
(PhysOrg.com) -- The simplest, most sensible "Big Bang" universe, theoretical physicists believe, would be one in which equal numbers of particles and antiparticles are formed in pairs. As the universe cools, ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Swirls, gullies and bedrock create two jaw-dropping etherial Mars landscapes
Wow! These two latest images from the HiRISE Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are simply amazing. I couldn’t decide which to post on top as the lead image, so did a coin flip. This observation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2011 |
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Nature still sets standard for nanoscience revolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- By striving for control and perfection in everything from computer chips to commercial jets, scientists and engineers actually exclude a fundamental force that allows nature to outperform even their best ...
Apr 19, 2011 |
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