There’s something magical about picking out the perfect Christmas tree. Maybe you remember walking through a tree farm, smelling fresh pine, and spotting that one tree that just felt right. Or maybe ...

Abstract: Pseudocodewords, and in particular minimal pseudocodewords, play an important role in understanding the performance of linear programming (LP) decoding. In this paper, we investigate minimal ...

A capacitor, along with resistors and inductors, belongs to a group of components known as passive devices. These components do not produce or amplify energy; instead, they can only store, absorb, or ...

Sulfur caves are among the most extreme habitats on Earth. They are completely dark and filled with hydrogen sulfide gas, which is toxic to most life-forms. Inside, species’ survival depends on ...

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Not to overload references, but we’re also in the realm of American drama that maps the mythic to ordinary lives; see Thornton Wilder’s village metaphysics in Our Town or Tony Kushner’s seraphic ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

At 4.6m from head to tail and 4m from flipper to flipper, Archelon is - by far - the largest sea turtle that has ever lived. This prehistoric giant is more than twice the size of today’s largest ...