I have been intrigued by some spots airing recently on local radio stations: “Support for this WBEZ program is provided by Yellow Cab, whose diverse drivers have been serving Chicagoland since 1915.

Bootstrap percolation, a model of irreversible activation on graphs, has emerged as a pivotal area within graph theory and statistical mechanics. In this process, nodes (or vertices) on a network are ...

Our sincere thanks and gratitude to Laura S. Washington for her insightful column “Bootstrap theory works” (Op-Ed, Sept. 15). She captured the reason Yellow Cab Co./Chicago created the radio ...

String theory, conceptualized more than 50 years ago as a framework to explain the formation of matter, remains elusive as a “provable” phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant ...

String theory suggests that the most fundamental building blocks of the universe are not particles like electrons or quarks, but tiny, vibrating strings of energy. It is the vibration and arrangement ...

We propose a new method, based on sample splitting, for constructing bootstrap confidence bounds for a parameter appearing in the regular smooth function model. It has been demonstrated in the ...

Netflix dropped Dark season two on June 21 with eight new episodes to binge in one go. Dark season two saw the story picked up after the shocking cliffhanger in the first run's finale which saw Jonas ...

“Model Minority” is an idea that emerged during the 1960s in the US that states that nonwhite groups of people are able to essentially revoke racial and socioeconomic oppression, that pose as barriers ...

In a recent interview on public television (PBS), Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said, “We have always expected people to stand on their own two ...