The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R. There's no clear definition of the term ...

In programming, a declaration of a function to the compiler indicating what types of parameters are passed to it and what value is returned. The compiler can then ...

Although debate over scientific definitions is important, it risks obscuring the real issues. Science is at the mercy of its language. It can be difficult for researchers to communicate what most ...

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

About twenty years ago Joram Piatigorsky coined the term 'gene sharing' to describe the situation when the same protein fulfils at least two markedly different functions; that is, different functions ...