samples

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The completion of the sample’s 1.2-billion-mile trip to Earth is part of a trio of missions in a season that Lori Glaze, NASA’s chief of planetary science, has called “asteroid autumn.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023

Vast multidimensional data from the molecular analyses of 134 known abiotic or biotic carbon-rich samples were used to train AI to predict a new sample's origin.

From Science Daily • Sep. 25, 2023

The general market sample’s initial recruitment was balanced to households from the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023

After death, the carbon-14 slowly decays into other isotopes at a predictable rate, allowing scientists to estimate a sample’s age to within a few decades.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 16, 2023

If the distribution of the population is not too dispersed or varied, we can, again, have more confidence that the sample’s characteristics are representative.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos