To settle a long-standing physics debate, I did something few would even attempt — I rented a helicopter. What began as a simple question about motion and gravity turned into a real-world experiment ...

It holds galaxies together, but we can’t see it. It promises a “theory of everything,” but explains almost nothing. This is a journey through the elegant chaos of modern science where mystery is the ...

The Dallas Cowboys enter a favorable stretch of the season, beginning with a Week 5 showdown with the winless New York Jets. Dallas is slightly favored on the road, which is more an indictment of New ...

This is a feature request (also kind of a bug-fix), which I am working on a PR to implement currently. I wanted to raise an issue first to properly track it. I am using a loss function based on the ...

The work reported in this note was done while the author was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation on leave of absence from the University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. This work was ...

In hiring a financial adviser, you want a professional who is smarter and more well-informed about investing than you are. In the vetting process, you’ll hear a variation on the same sales pitch: “We ...

How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions Your email has been sent Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.

Abstract: The transfer function is crucial for direct volume rendering (DVR) to create an informative visual representation of volumetric data. However, manually adjusting the transfer function to ...

Men around the world generally live shorter lives than women. The reasons for this may be multiple, including simple biological differences. But disparities in behavior—like not seeking medical help ...