Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...
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The staircase paradox proves you can't always trust your limits
Draw a diagonal line across a unit square. Its length is √2, roughly 1.414. Now approximate that diagonal with a staircase of tiny horizontal and vertical steps. Each staircase has a length of 2 - one ...
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The uncanny mind: 54 accounts of high-level cognitive behavior
You get smart. Then you get uncomfortably smart. That rare, off-the-charts, stop-everyone-in-their-tracks type of ...
Cheng, R. , Liu, J. , Hao, L. and Wu, D. (2026) On the Application of the Infinitesimal Method to Two Categories of Problems in College Physics. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 378-389. doi: ...
Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...
The recent outbreak of thongs (G-strings, not flip-flops) at beaches and swimming pools has prompted a revival of prudish responses from casual swimsuit observers. Not since the days of bikini beach ...
The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...
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