The peer review process for awarding NIH grants has some problems. Less money is being awarded, and the buying power of the NIH has declined. What's going on with the peer review system?

Climate modeling requires massive computational power. Until recently, that power required room sized machines with daunting technical and logistic requirements. But new advances in computer design, including hardware and software,...

In this series of videos "60 Seconds with ..." I've asked each person to tell me (in a minute or less) about that one special teacher who made a difference in their life.

MoveBank provides a free online database that enables animal tracking researchers to manage, share, protect, analyze and store their data. The system includes a set of online tools that help ecologists link animal...

In this Super Science Rewind, Charlie and Jordan demonstrate how the cells responsible for relaying information from the ear to the brain adapt to noise levels in an environment. A cell in the auditory nerve exposed to loud sounds for a...

This Video Explains Marketing - What Distorts the Results of Marketing Research

This video explains the differences between observational studies, surveys, and experiments in statistical investigations. It provides examples and highlights key components of each type of investigation. It also discusses the...

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Maysan Ghovanloo at Georgia Tech designs technology that allows disabled people to control everything - from wheelchairs to computers - with their tongue! We visit his lab and meet Jason...

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Possibly the most famous experimental paradigm for exploring attachment in infants - Mary Ainsworth's (1969) Strange Situation places an infant in eight scenarios to observe their attachment behaviours.

How many neuroscientists can you name off the top of your head? In this special episode of Neuro Transmissions, weêre taking a moment to talk about a very awesome neuroscientist. Dr. Ben Barres is a brilliant researcher and a champion...

In episode 35, Charlie and Jordan explore new open-source medical capsule robots' hardware and software. Researchers around the globe who want to customize medical capsule robots won't have to start from scratch anymore.

Learn how researchers simulate data. They provide examples of simulating bird nest building patterns and airline arrival statistics. Walk through the steps of designing a simulation, assigning digits to represent outcomes, and using...

For years, researchers have struggled to understand how emotions are formed and processed by the brain. Now, neuroscientist Kevin LaBar and his graduate students at Duke University are using a virtual reality room to study how the brain...

In this video, you'll learn about Type I error versus Type II error.
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This clip is from the chapter "Hypothesis Testing" of the series "Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis".This section explains null and...

NIST research reveal that context plays a critical factor in why users click or don’t click on a phishing email. Why do phishing emails remain so effective at disrupting our computer networks?
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From the section: Exploring Malware Functionalities. In this section, you learn how the behavior of malware is different in various classes of malware, and such an insight helps you to understand the class of malware while you are...

A new study claims that the massive Greenland ice sheet is on the brink of a disastrous tipping point.

Here we look at some psychological field experiments, such as Hofling's study of nurse obedience, Fischer's test of the cognitive interview and the Pilliavins' research on samaritanism, to show what they offer psychologists compared to...

This video provides examples of different research questions and demonstrates how to formulate null and alternative hypotheses. The video also discusses the importance of probability and the consequences of different conclusions.