Of the tests to do before planting in your garden, a drainage test is among the best (and easiest). Try this quick drainage ...

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or ...

When you hit “send” on a text message, it is easy to imagine that the note will travel directly from your phone to your friend's. In fact, it typically goes on a long journey through a cellular ...

Alexander Hartmann, a physicist at the University of Oldenburg, in Germany, has introduced a new model to explain a common word puzzle phenomenon. In his paper published in the journal Physical Review ...

United Way of Bengaluru (UWBe), a unit of the global United Way network, a privately-funded non-profit organisation founded 132 years ago, is pitching in to find a logical solution to Bengaluru’s ...

Amidst the water scarcity problem in Bengaluru, a percolation well project will soon be started by an organisation that will construct these wells in many of the BBMP parks and government institutes ...

The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 23, No. 3 (June 2013), pp. 1074-1085 (12 pages) We construct an edge-weight distribution for i.i.d. first-passage percolation on ℤ 2 whose limit shape is not a ...