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In 2008, Pietro Perona , Caltech's Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, was on sabbatical in Italy, enjoying a cappuccino in a ...

When Lake Burley Griffin was finally filled in 1964, Prime Minister Robert Menzies could not resist a wry smile. Speaking at the lake's inauguration ...

A tree diagram is helpful for working with event intersections and conditional probabilities. A tree consists of nodes and branches representing different stages in an experiment. Tree 1 shows an ...

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Liam J Coyle is a climate ambassador and strategy consultant at KPMG, who recently attended AvCon 2025 to give a panel to ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Abstract: A key technical challenge in software testing is the design of useful test cases. Test design can be based on a variety of software artifacts, including requirements, designs, or even the ...