Eggs being cracked onto a nonstick pan on a stovetop. There is a carton of eggs in the background. Nonstick pans coated with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), like the one shown here, release several ...

Scientists around the world have been searching food, water and other environmental media for microplastics and for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). But microfluoroplastics (MFPs), the ...

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Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous and powerful tools. A new result marks an exciting advance toward that goal.

In the mid-1990s, Peter Shor, at AT&T Bell Labs and then one of its heirs, AT&T Labs, devised the first algorithms that one day could exploit the intrinsic parallelism of quantum computing. In ...

Abstract: The most common method for interpreting strata with seismic data is to relate the peaks and troughs of adjacent traces based on the seismic waveform characteristics. This can be captured by ...

Abstract: Time-frequency (TF) analysis is an important tool for seismic signal analysis, and through traditional methods, it is difficult to achieve high TF resolution and energy aggregation. In this ...

Niura has developed a pair of earbuds that monitor brain activity and, it claims, can both watch for potential health issues and match music to a user’s mood. The founders, Ryan Ahmed, Shahriar Huda, ...

The fast and robust identification of fault elements is essential for the security and continuous operation of the power grid. The existing methods might be maloperation for bad data disturbance and ...

Monitoring of industrial assets often relies on high-frequency (HF) signal measurements. One difficulty of dealing with such measurements in the industrial context is the conciliation between the high ...