科技情报局Published at 2025-10-22 14:44The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a smoke-filled tavern to discuss a secret plan: If ...- 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-20 14:44
How Soon Will the Seas Rise?
In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of irreversible retreat. Glaciers flowing toward the sea at the periphery of the 2-kilometer-thick sheet of ic... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-17 14:44
How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again)
The pillow is cold against your cheek. Your upstairs neighbor creaks across the ceiling. You close your eyes; shadows and light dance across your vision. A cat sniffs at a piece of cheese. Dots fall into a lake. All this feels very normal a... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-15 14:44
The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View
The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, Italy, his office at the International School for Advanced Studies overlooks a broad bay at the norther... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-14 03:13
Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize
In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the University of California, Berkeley, George Dantzig — a first-year graduate student — copied two problems off the blackboard, thinking they were a homework assignment. He found the ... - 科技情报局Published at 2025-10-14 03:13
Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things
Sip a glass of wine, and you will notice liquid continuously weeping down the wetted side of the glass. In 1855, James Thomson, brother of Lord Kelvin, explained in the Philosophical Magazine that these wine “tears” or “legs” result from th...