Buz Ecker is a man of letters -- one a day to his three kids over the course of their lives. He started writing to his daughter, Rosie Paulik, while she was at summer camp. Paulik thought if the ...

Since the pioneering work of D’Arcy Thompson more than a century ago, it has become clear that shape and form play a major role in determining proper function of living organisms. Our understanding of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall ...

21 Manipur MLAs urged PM Modi to establish a popular government in the state where President's rule has been imposed. They argue this is crucial for peace, while Congress criticise them for bypassing ...

At a virtual conference in November 2020, the winner of a biennial protein-structure-prediction challenge was announced: AlphaFold. Created by Google DeepMind, this computational tool had blown its ...

Japan takes a very different approach to resume writing than what we might be used to back home. There are two major hiring seasons in Japan: early spring and late summer. However, it is never too ...

I'm working on a game in the style of something from the era of Half-Life 1 or Unreal Tournament. These games didn't use shaders, but they did achieve some interesting effects using the fixed-function ...

Abstract: In this article, an unified distributed multiagent system is proposed to minimize the time-varying quadratic function under the time-varying coupled equality constraint, which is further ...

B vitamins are a group of eight essential nutrients that play roles in many organs and bodily systems. They help with various functions, including creating energy from food, producing blood cells, and ...

Abstract: The paper introduces a quadratic programming algorithm for real-time local path planning of autonomous vehicles. The algorithm relies on discretized sampling points and an enhanced cost ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...