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Americans may find themselves paying more for a bourbon neat these days. U.S. whiskey distillers throughout the liquor industry are facing financial hardship lately, and economic experts are pointing ...

I've run into this bug in an unrelated test, and since I got no Search expertise, I tried to do a reproduction test, which I mention in this ticket. When ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: For the conjugate gradient method to solve the unconstrained optimization problem, given a new interval method to obtain the direction parameters, and a new conjugate gradient algorithm is ...

A new method in electron microscopy enables sub-20-picometer targeting of individual atoms without prior exposure, opening the door to atom-specific analysis and control. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

Humanity’s quest for knowledge is our most striking feature. No other animal asks why or how things work, but humans aren’t content to enjoy the world as it is. We must ask why and tinker to make ...

Researchers studying laser-driven proton acceleration introduced an innovative, self-replenishing water sheet target to address the inefficiency of replacing targets after each laser pulse. The target ...

This paper proposes a family of line-search methods to deal with weighted orthogonal procrustes problems. In particular, the proposed family uses a search direction based on a convex combination ...