With performance optimizations seemingly having lost their relevance in an era of ever-increasing hardware performance, there are still many good reasons to spend some time optimizing code. In a ...

There are some imperfections, but for the most part these bubbles intersect at three-way junctions with angles close to 120 degrees. This “preference” is dictated by the interplay between the material ...

ST. LOUIS -- Genetic patterns are like the tea leaves in the bottom of a cup for predicting which patients are likely to respond to medical therapy for life-threatening viruses such as hepatitis C, ...

New research findings show doctors how to predict whether or not a patient with hepatitis C will respond to traditional therapy. Genetic patterns are like the tea leaves in the bottom of a cup for ...