Fast science

Forensic science standards in fast-changing environments.

Regulatory trends in forensic science point strongly to the need for exhaustive testing of all findings and tools. At the same time a number ofjurisdictions suggest ajudicial test for the admissibility of novel scientific evidence. But in fields such as computers and cellphones, the rate of change is faster than the normal times required for peer-reviewed publication. One route to admitting les...

Science can map a solution to a fast-burning problem.

ain has fallen on the explosive wildfire that ripped through the Fort McMurray region of Canada last month, but the inferno is likely to burn until the snow falls later in the year. The raging fire was a true force of nature. It sent out embers that skipped natural barriers such as the Athabasca River, hundreds of metres wide, and created its own weather system: pyrocumulus clouds that generate...

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Fast Text Searching With Errors

Searching for a pattern in a text file is a very common operation in many applications ranging from text editors and databases to applications in molecular biology. In many instances the pattern does not appear in the text exactly. Errors in the text or in the query can result from misspelling or from experimental errors (e.g., when the text is a DNA sequence). The use of such approximate patte...

Fusion Science Center Meeting on Electron Divergence in Fast Ignition

Children’s Acquisition of Science Terms: Does Fast Mapping Work?