The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

Abstract: In the latest Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) development, a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) block partition structure is proposed for enhanced video coding. Compared to the quadtree ...

This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

In data processing problems, files are frequently used which must both be searched and altered. Binary search techniques are efficient for searching large files, but the associated file organization ...

Now that we’re getting into more complex data structures, having more complex operations, it’s helpful to have a tool for visualization. Here’s a tool developed by David Galles, formerly of University ...

A binary star system, designated D9, has been discovered orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing the first compelling evidence that previously enigmatic G objects are ...

Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a ...

In a forest along the Hudson River north of New York City, a strange new building is slowly rising. The strangeness of the building is that it’s meant to be occupied by humans, animals, and plants.