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Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...

This week we are going to go over some basic anatomy of the meniscus, its function, and how it relates to running. The meniscus gets a lot of attention when it comes to running related injuries, and ...

The basic function of any spectrometer is to take in light, break it into its spectral components, digitize the signal as a function of wavelength, and read it out and display it via a computer. In ...

Over the past year, I’ve received startlingly similar phone calls from families of college students: Their first- and second-year students across the United States are struggling with basic tasks and ...

A pair of mathematicians solved a legendary question about the proportion of vertices in a graph with an odd number of connections. “It’s a bit of a surprise, at least for me, that such a combination ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...