Abstract: The use of variable frequency drives (VFD) in floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) units provides well-known benefits to the power system, such as: soft-starting of motors, ...

The science pros at The King of Random reveal why paperclips can float and the science that makes it possible. With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? 50 Cent ...

Pithecanthropus erectus, the 500,000-year-old Java ape-man and first of humanoid typediscovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between a float and double in Java is that a double can represent much larger ...

Seven years ago Alastair Pilkington, a glass expert, whose father Sir Harry is chief of Britain’s great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the ...

With AI at the forefront of technology, it is essential to recognize its role in every aspect of our daily operations, from maintaining contact with our customers to leveraging our marketing and human ...

The fact that ARM64 processors are low powered in terms of energy consumption means more servers can be crammed into the same volume of datacentre space than x86 hardware. If workloads can run on ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

For this episode of “For Science!” we explore the concepts of solubility and density using the “floating fish” experiment. Because dry erase markers are created to not stick to surfaces, it is made ...

Last fall, Eric Klopfer decided to conduct an experiment in his undergraduate computer science class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He divided the class into three groups and gave ...