The concept of design patterns in software engineering was popularized in the early 1990s by the famous book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard ...

Abstract: Studies regarding vegetation phenology variations along the urban-rural gradients (URGs) that rely on the binary classification of “urban-rural” cannot reveal fine-scale spatial ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

The world has sounded off on Lizzo's weight, but now she's taking back the mic. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, whose appearance has been the subject of public scrutiny, opened up about her ...

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Spatial metabolomics faces three primary challenges in food-medicine homology research: the "black box" of component interactions, poorly characterized spatiotemporal dynamics, and the complexity of ...

A new research framework helps AI agents explore three-dimensional spaces they can’t directly detect. Called MindJourney, the approach addresses a key limitation in vision-language models (VLMs), ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...