Quanta Magazine

After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...
Nature

Direct RNA sequencing and signal alignment reveal RNA structure ensembles in a eukaryotic cell

Although there are many examples of functional RNA structures in bacteria and viruses, how RNA structures could regulate gene expression in eukaryotic cells remains an important open question. As RNAs ...
Forbes

Linear City: When Transport Shapes Urban Structure

Nearly half the world’s population now lives in cities: centers of production, finance and culture. And according to the 2024 "Urban Benchmark Methodology," these cities generate over 80% of global ...
The Hill

DOJ, DHS probing deal to share states’ voter roll data

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it will work with the Department of Justice (DOJ) as the DOJ pressures states to turn over voter roll information. The Justice Department has sought ...
TechCrunch

OSHA probing fatality at Rivian warehouse

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into the death of a worker at a Rivian warehouse in Illinois this week, the federal agency told TechCrunch on Friday. The ...
Frontiers

Data-driven wear prediction method for complex engineering structures

Predicting the evolution of wear in metallic structural components is vital for accurately estimating the lifetime of engineering equipment. However, this remains a significant challenge due to the ...
IEEE

Linear Probing Revisited: Tombstones Mark the Demise of Primary Clustering

Abstract: The linear-probing hash table is one of the oldest and most widely used data structures in computer science. However, linear probing famously comes with a major draw-back: as soon as the ...
TechSpot

Senators probe whether AI data centers are driving up electricity costs

Sounding off: A trio of Senate Democrats is demanding answers from some of the world's largest technology companies about how their rapidly expanding data center networks may be driving up electricity ...
Ars Technica

Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators launched a probe Tuesday demanding that tech companies explain exactly how they plan to prevent data center projects from increasing electricity bills in communities where prices are already ...
GEN

Combining Ligand- and Structure-Based Methods for More Effective Virtual Screening

In drug discovery, virtual screening is a fast and cost-effective way of narrowing down vast chemical libraries to identify the most promising hits, reducing synthesis and testing requirements while ...
EurekAlert!

Seahorse exoskeleton-inspired structure with linear-to-torsion transition property for low-frequency vibration isolation

Figure 1: Results of the bio-inspired topology. (a) Photograph of a seahorse specimen, (b) deformation schematic of the square exoskeleton of seahorses, (c) topological structure and (d) ...