Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

Americans, if they’re so inclined, can now donate to pay down the national debt via Venmo and PayPal. The U.S. Treasury Department’s little-known program has been around for decades, and Americans ...

The three months after giving birth are often referred to as the fourth trimester. Why? As Abby Erker, founder of the Materra Method, or any other mom can tell you, it requires just as much tender ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

China’s plan to get consumers spending again may be working a little too well. Policymakers’ rollout of subsidies for smartphones, home appliances, cars and a host of other products have spurred a ...

Abstract: To explore the anisotropic nature and improve computational efficiency, eigenvalue (EV-) analysis is adopted to implement the transfer matrix method (TMM), abbreviated as EV-TMM, enabling ...

Abstract: We propose a systematic and efficient extension of the multimodal transfer-matrix method to obtain the dispersion diagram of structures with 2-D periodicity specifically targeted to ...

The Buffalo Bills are one step closer to taking the field in the new Highmark Stadium after the last structural beam was raised into place Friday morning. On an unusually sunny spring day in Orchard ...

Introduction: In this paper, a dynamic structural response simulation program TwrDyn for wind turbine tower is developed based on geometrically exact beam theory model, and the program is verified by ...

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature. The ...