What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is the World Ending in 2026?

A 1960 science paper predicted humanity would be crushed by overpopulation on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. What it got right—and ...
IEEE

Exponential Stability of the Linearized Viscous Saint-Venant Equations Using a Quadratic Lyapunov Function

Abstract: In this work, we investigate the exponential stability of the viscous Saint-Venant equations by adding to the standard hyperbolic Saint-Venant equations a viscosity term coming from the ...
IEEE

Accurate and Efficient Characterization of a High Voltage Capacitor by Fitting Single Discharge Experiments With a Simple Circuit Theory

Abstract: A capacitor is ideally considered as a pure capacitance, but under practical conditions, it also exhibits some resistive and inductive properties, called equivalent series resistance (ESR) ...
BMJ

When I use a word . . . Defining bias in research

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...