driven concept album. This often takes one-of-two forms: A – the biography, in which the songs narrate the life of the musician; or B – the melodrama, in which an otherwise original story is driven by ...

Researchers developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining the amplitude, phase, and polarization properties of light. Credit: ...

Organisations increasingly select and deploy artificial intelligence systems on the strength of public benchmarks. A benchmark, however, scores a system on a single distribution of tasks, whereas each ...

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art quantum computers have around 1,000 qubits. Columbia physicists Sebastian ...

A Python library for numpy arrays that persist on disk in a format that is simple, self-documented and tool-independent, and maximizes universal readability.

When Alanis Morissette dropped “Jagged Little Pill” in 1995, she wasn’t just redefining alternative rock — she was redefining emotional honesty. Her raw, confessional lyrics captured the tangled mess ...

This 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, for the first time, overlays data on climate hazards and multidimensional poverty to assess how exposed poor people are to environmental ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Most albums experience very short shelf lives, and even a moment on ...

Abstract: In order to solve the real-time positioning problem of flexible wearable ultrasonic transducer array unit under dynamic conditions, a new transducer array based on button flexible structure ...

Abstract: A four-dimensional (4-D) antenna array with hemispherical spatial coverage is proposed for seamless connectivity over a wide area. The antenna array is composed of 4 sequentially rotated ...