For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

First Minister John Swinney has apologised for a state-sanctioned social experiment on Scotland's Gypsy Travellers. In what is known as the "Tinker Experiments", which ran from the 1940s to 1980s ...

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This paper is intended to investigate the sensing of surface parameters by microwave radiometry. A Extended Kalman filter(EKF) is developed to manage the nonlinear relationship between surface ...

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When measuring level in wells or vessels using ultrasonic pulse-echo techniques, carefully positioned, narrow beam angle transducers are usually employed. When it comes to small cross sections, a ...