News tagged with two envelope problem

Winning While Losing: New Strategy Solves 'Two-Envelope' Paradox

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Australia have taken a step toward resolving a seemingly simple yet unsolved paradox known as the "two-envelope" problem. They’ve worked out a new strategy that can enable ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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35,000 gallons of prevention: Containing a tunnel flood with an inflatable stopper

Twenty years ago in Chicago, a small leak in an unused freight tunnel expanded beneath the Windy City and started a flood which eventually gushed through the entire tunnel system. A quarter-million people ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Jupiter's melting heart sheds light on mysterious exoplanet

Scientists now have evidence that Jupiter's core has been dissolving, and the implications stretch far outside of our solar system.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

How far is far enough?

people welcome developments in principle, so long as they are "not in my backyard." But just how big is a backyard? The answer depends on a number of factors and Guenther Schauberger of the University of Veterinary Medicine, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA questions Apollo 13 commander's sale of list

NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 15

Shooting for the moon -- to mine it

Most people don't take it literally when they're told to shoot for the moon - but thinking small isn't Naveen Jain's way. The 52-year-old Internet entrepreneur is a co-founder of Moon Express Inc., one of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 20

Facebook makes privacy pledge in FTC settlement

Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Biography of a star

Nuclear fusion is a virtually inexhaustible source of energy, and for decades now scientists have been working on exploiting it. A process that continues to present difficulties in laboratories on Earth has ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

The James Webb Telescope will see Earth-like worlds

The James Web Space Telescope has been in the news a lot lately.  Often referred to as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, its existence has been in jeopardy since a House committee voted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

How the Milky Way killed off its satellites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wall Street reviews Netflix's 'Qwikster' DVD split

(AP) -- Netflix's new double-feature is getting bad reviews on Wall Street.

Technology / Business

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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