Abstract: In this issue, “Best of the Web” presents the modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) resources, consisting of a collection of handwritten digit images used ...

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has once again made headlines, this time with a strange new discovery that could reshape our understanding of particle physics and the universe itself. In this ...

Europe’s ExoMars mission is among the highest-profile casualties of the US president’s plan to slash research funding.

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More than 80 years ago, on June 6, 1944, a decisive military operation took place that would alter the course of World War II. Allied troops landed in France by sea and air in a struggle to conquer ...

that for experiments demanding the digitization of very large numbers of pictures, for example those requiring high statistical accuracy, some more-automatic picture-reading equipment would be needed.

Harvard University has agreed to hand over a set of historic photos believed to be among the earliest depicting enslaved people in the United States. The agreement ends a long legal battle between ...

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