It’s easy to forget that place names are all just words at the end of the day, and so—just like words in a dictionary—they all have histories, etymologies, and origin stories of their own.

A Pareto genetic algorithm is used to explore the performance of planar absorbers incorporating a sheet of periodic resistive patches embedded in a primary material substrate. The absorbing ...

In many real-world rotary machines, there is an inherent need to attenuate time-varying but position-dependent periodic disturbances. This article proposes an improved repetitive controller, in which ...

The University of St. Andrews kicked off the new year (2019) by announcing the discovery of what’s believed to the world’s oldest periodic table chart. From a January 17, 2019 news item on phys.org A ...

With over 190 countries in the world, it might come as a surprise that only three begin with the letter 'J'. These countries are Japan, Jamaica, and Jordan. This small group of countries are ...

Birefringent ring-banded spherulites with radial periodic variation of thicknesses were grown from poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) solutions under conditions for which the solution concentration was held ...

Conceptual vector illustration of gadolinium atom and electron configuration 2, 8, 18, 25, 9, 2. Gadolinium chemical element. Education background. Mendeleev... Gadolinium chemical element. Education ...

Iran’s state TV says nuclear scientists Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were killed in an Israeli strike earlier this morning. Israel has said it believes a number of ...

7:15 p.m. June 11, 2025: This story updated with comment from the Cavazos family. WASHINGTON — An Army base in Texas and six others across the U.S. whose names were changed in 2023 because they ...

President Trump said the U.S. and China had reached a deal to save their trade truce in a post on his Truth Social platform. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Press China’s chokehold on ...