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How To Solve Any Problem Using Enrico Fermi’s Back-Of-The-Envelope Math (And Some Common Sense)

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...
Purdue Exponent

North Dakota turns to legal immigration to solve workforce shortage

(The Center Square) - North Dakota is incentivizing legal immigration to recruit workers and address the workforce shortages affecting the state. In August 2025, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ...
eeworldonline

How to calculate and apply an inverse FFT: part 1

The inverse Fourier transform (inverse FFT or iFFT) reverses the operation of the Fourier transform and derives a time-domain representation from a frequency-domain dataset. Figure 1. The inverse ...
Science Daily

Scientists solve decades long mystery of NLRC5 sensor function in cell death

A new study identifies NLRC5 as an innate immune sensor that plays a crucial role in PANoptotic cell death -- making it a key therapeutic target. The innate immune system is responsible for protecting ...
The New York Times

The Algebra Problem: How Middle School Math Became a National Flashpoint

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...
IEEE

Learning to Solve Inverse Problems for Perceptual Sound Matching

Abstract: Perceptual sound matching (PSM) aims to find the input parameters to a synthesizer so as to best imitate an audio target. Deep learning for PSM optimizes a neural network to analyze and ...