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Today's poker is ruled by game theory and quantitative analysis, but in this book excerpt, Maria Konnikova describes how she became a world champion by relying heavily on an old-school psychological style.

The twisted bilayer transition metal called dichalcogenide WSe2 enables the realization of exotic correlated phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity, in a controlled manner and without the geometrical restriction found in twisted bilayer graphene.

Quantum computing and machine learning — It is natural to seek connections between these two emerging approaches to computing, in the hope of reaping multiple benefits. The search for connecting links has just started, but a lot of potential is already emerging in this wild, unexplored territory.

Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.

"Dress well from top to bottom, and do not rely on the fact that the camera shows only your upper body." A postdoctoral researcher shares six things he learned from interviewing online.

COVID-19 is "the perfect storm for the diffusion of false rumor and fake news," and analysts are tracking the misinformation in hopes of curbing its spread.

Despite physical isolation, MIT mathematicians in the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation have built a one-stop portal to online talks around the world.

The institute's various open-source algorithms to analyze neural signals are discussed, including SpikeForest, which is described in a May 19 paper published in eLife.

Two Northeastern University journalists describe how the political right seized on a preprint, criticized by many scientists as flawed, that claimed COVID-19 wasn't that deadly.

Ubiquity of social media has made it easier to spread or even create COVID-19 falsehoods, making the work of public health officials harder.