As a food writer, I don’t usually come across snakes on my beat. Which is a very good thing. I have ophidiophobia, or as I prefer to call it — snake-o-phobia. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had ...

Established in 1950 as Tamkang Junior College of English, Tamkang University was Taiwan’s first private higher education institution. Known as Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences from 1958 to 1980, ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2019. Contributed by Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, August 27, 2021 (sent ...

Photo- and video-based reidentification of green sea turtles using their natural markers is far less invasive than artificial tagging. An RGB camera mounted on a man-portable rig, was used to collect ...

As robot technology becomes widely applied, simplifying human-robot interaction has become a hot topic for research. Traditional robot operation interfaces (such as CNC machines in factories and large ...

Distortions from traditional dimensionality reduction methods obscure relationships in high-dimensional single-cell data, thus impeding biological insights. We introduce DTNE (diffusive topology ...

GCC, Global Coastal Characteristics, is a dataset of hydrodynamic, geophysical, and socioeconomic indicators along the global coastline 40. Data is provided at shore-normal transects which follow the ...

A college professor at my university years ago shocked his class with a demonstration. He showed off a wood frog that was still alive but frozen solid. Then suddenly, he threw it against a wall and it ...

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is a community-developed data standard that allows knowledge about biological designs to be captured using a machine-tractable, ontology-backed ...

PLEASE NOTE: Yelp is in the process of switching to py.test. We recommend you use it instead of Testify. Testify is a replacement for Python's unittest module and nose. It is modeled after unittest, ...