By examining historical data, statisticians in the College of Science at Virginia Tech have quantified biases that play a role in granting Division I at-large basketball teams inclusion in the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Assistant profes…
Boulder, CO, USA – The February 2011 Geosphere includes two articles designated for the latest Geosphere theme, “New developments in Grenville geology: In honor of James McLelland.” Other topics include 3-D characterization of rocks, ash, minerals, …
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new kind of underwater sonar device that can detect objects through bubble clouds that would effectively blind standard sonar.
Just as ultrasound is used in medical imaging, conventional…
Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have successfully used Coaxial Helicity Injection (CHI) to generate plasma current and couple it to a conventional current generation method at the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) fus…