Contrary to popular belief, I think that numbers often say what words can’t. In Yale’s colossal ecosystem, we can’t help but ...

An international team of researchers have quantified the role of the "hydrogen economy" in making our society more sustainable. In a paper in Nature Communications, they present the results of ...

One fundamental test for a skill-based game is whether skilled players reliably outperform what pure chance would yield. In ...

Synaptic efficacy is a basic concept in neuroscience for which we have an intuitive definition — the capacity of a presynaptic input to influence postsynaptic output. Similarly, we have an ...

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in ...

Objective: To determine whether quantified, auditable records of functional rehabilitation can be generated using subjective assessments of players’ performance in fitness tests routinely used in ...

This is partly due to the methods that conventional physics theories offer for quantifying the speed with which a system relaxes (i.e., its relaxation speed). Researchers at Kyoto University ...