In the Altes Museum in Berlin stands a boy with his arms raised to the heavens. Aside from the right heel, which is slightly arched, this ancient Greek statue is almost perfectly symmetrical. Did the ...

Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration honoring African heritage and culture, observed from Dec. 26 to Jan 1. The non-religious holiday was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga as a response to the ...

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For almost a century, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a particle's position and momentum cannot be known at the same time with absolute ...

Tingrei Tan receives funding from Australian Research Council, US Office of Naval Research, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Wellcome Leap. Christophe Valahu receives funding from ...

Abstract: Estimating per-flow cardinality from high-speed data streams has many applications such as anomaly detection and resource allocation. Yet despite tracking single flow cardinality with ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

1 College of Educational Science, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi, China 2 Shanghai Institute of Early Childhood Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China Background: Family ...

I recently read the biography of Benjamin Franklin, 1 and it did not disappoint. Franklin grew up in working-class conditions, starting his career early on as a tradesman and then pivoting into ...