To many experts, the U.S. economy is looking increasingly "K-shaped," with bifurcation between growth and wealth in its upper echelons as lower-income households continue on a downward path that could ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development. Sip a glass of wine, and you ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.” State officials promise large-scale involuntary ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

Image Processing in Python for 3D image stacks, or IMPPY3D, is a software repository comprising mostly Python scripts that simplify post-processing and 3D shape characterization of grayscale image ...

Abstract: In recent years, with the rapid growth number of multi-modal 3D shapes, it has become increasingly important to efficiently recognize a vast number of unlabeled multi-modal 3D shapes through ...

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in ...