NASA's X-59 supersonic jet ended its second test just nine minutes into flight, ending the one-hour event almost as soon as it began because of a system warning. Credit: NASA / Jim Ross Nothing seemed ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

Abstract: In this paper we consider two distance-based relaxed variants of the maximum clique problem (MAX CLIQUE), named MAX d-CLIQUE and MAX d-CLUB: A d-clique in a graph G is a subset S ⊆ V(G) of ...

TAMPA, Fla. – To borrow a line from Bill Hader's fictional Saturday Night Live character Stefon, the U.S. men's national team's year has had everything – routine wins, uninspiring defeats, fresh faces ...

Abstract: This article investigates the stabilization problem of fuzzy Markov jump systems (F-MJSs) with incomplete transition probability (TP) information. Existing methods for handling partially ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

One of music’s least likely breakout stars returns to the spotlight following a successful debut, an indulgent ambient detour and some recent controversy. One of music’s least likely breakout stars ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...