The Air Force radar operator at Goose Bay, Labrador, last week was watching bright blips drifting across his radarscope as he traced the track of airplanes approaching from Europe. The planes seemed ...

Every day, forensic examiners compare pieces of evidence (e.g., fingerprints, bullets) and decide whether they “match”—i.e., came from the same source (e.g., person, gun). These decisions hold obvious ...

A major new climate study in the journal Nature got worldwide media coverage for finding that the oceans warmed dramatically faster than previously thought — but now the researchers have retracted ...

An influential California commission said Thursday that forensic science errors are a major contributor to wrongful convictions and called for better training, more monitoring and stronger standards ...

Corrected: The January 24 print edition and an earlier web edition of this article misspelled the name of Linda Ronstadt. Science textbooks used by an estimated 80 percent of middle school students ...

Errors come in many varieties. Scientists, like everyone can be careless or inattentive. Such errors are preventable. But there are other errors that scientists make that are almost unavoidable, as ...

Heart disease, cancer ... and medical errors? A new tally of mistakes made in American hospitals suggests that medical errors are the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S. At least 250,000 deaths each year ...

We’re nearing the end of the year, and there are typically a flood of announcements regarding quantum computers around now, in part because some companies want to live up to promised schedules. Most ...

Analysts and Data Scientists will be familiar with examining residual plots for their models and looking for outlier errors that may indicate that the model’s underlying assumptions have been broken, ...

Researchers have developed a new protocol for characterizing quantum gate errors, paving the way toward more reliable quantum simulations and fault-tolerant quantum computing. Researchers have ...

In this special guest feature, Dave McCarthy, VP of IoT Solutions at Bsquare, discusses a few of the biggest data science errors organizations make and tips on how to avoid them. Dave is a leading ...