What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

Scientists build a synthetic cell that grows, divides and replicates DNA using only non-living chemical components.

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

A soggy injection of tropical air is promising days of showers in Florida and Palm Beach County with several inches of drought dimming rain possible into early June. Southeast Florida, including Palm ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

Have you ever wished Excel could do more of the heavy lifting for you? Imagine transforming hours of tedious data cleaning and analysis into just a few clicks. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s ...

Why write SQL queries when you can get an LLM to write the code for you? Query NFL data using querychat, a new chatbot component that works with the Shiny web framework and is compatible with R and ...

Image Processing in Python for 3D image stacks, or IMPPY3D, is a software repository comprising mostly Python scripts that simplify post-processing and 3D shape characterization of grayscale image ...

represent trajectories and mobility flows with proper data structures, TrajDataFrame and FlowDataFrame. manage and manipulate mobility data of various formats (call detail records, GPS data, data from ...

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