A beginner’s guide to filling out your 2026 March Madness bracket with 5 simple tips

Never filled out a bracket before? Need a quick refresher that won't turn into a calculus class? We've got you.
CNET

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for March 16 #743

Here's today's Strands answers and hints. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Strands, ...
C&EN

Attractive Design: An Elution Solvent Optimization Platform for Magnetic-Bead-based Fractionation Using Digital Microfluidics and Design of Experiments

† Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada ‡ Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, 164 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S ...

Discover a Clever Use for Your Store-Bought Pie Crust's Plastic Cover

I recently made several homemade pies to test out the viral Kool-Aid pie trend that's been all over TikTok. And by "homemade," I mean I bought a pie crust and filled it with the i ...
IEEE

Improving Estimation of Forest Canopy Cover by Introducing Loss Ratio of Laser Pulses Using Airborne LiDAR

Abstract: Forest canopy cover (CC) directly and indirectly influences various processes of forest ecosystems. Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) can be used to characterize forest spatial ...
IEEE

Generating Book Covers Using Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: Thanks to tremendous progress in generative AI, a wide range of applications has become possible. In this paper, we present a web application that uses artificial intelligence to generate ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Boosting Algorithm: An Ensemble Learning Tool for Land Use Land Cover Classification Using Google Alpha Earth Foundations Satellite Embeddings ()

Accurate land use/land cover (LULC) classification remains a persistent challenge in rapidly urbanising regions especially, in the Global South, where cloud cover, seasonal variability, and limited ...