Compact flat-lens system can generate nondiffracting bottle beams

Most laser sources produce Gaussian beams that diverge as they propagate. This natural spreading limits their effectiveness in applications that require light to remain concentrated over long ...
The Times Leader

Trump’s secretive, fast-tracked process to pick who will run Pa.’s new detention centers

The view of 3501 Mountain Road in Upper Bern Township, where the Trump administration paid $87.4 million for a warehouse in Berks County that ICE wants to use as a detention facility. This story was ...
The Times Leader

LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP: Treasurer announces success of new tax appeal process

The Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg on July 26, 2023. Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced this week that the success of the Board of Finance & Revenue’s (BF&R) new tax ...
eLife

Learning sequence-function relationships with scalable, interpretable Gaussian processes

This important work introduces a family of interpretable Gaussian process models that allows us to learn and model sequence-function relationships in biomolecules. These models are applied to three ...
Nature

Random Fields and Gaussian Processes

Random fields and Gaussian processes constitute fundamental frameworks in modern probability theory and spatial statistics, providing robust tools for modelling complex dependencies over space and ...
The Heritage Foundation

Due Process and Aliens: What They Are and Are Not Entitled to in Immigration Proceedings

Immigration cases are civil rather than criminal proceedings, and aliens have limited due process rights as defined by Congress and Supreme Court precedents. Those rights differ depending on whether ...
Science Daily

Quantum dice: Scientists harness true randomness from entangled photons

Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws on the intrinsic unpredictability of quantum entanglement to produce ...
IEEE

Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Spectral-Spatial Dual Random Fields With Gaussian and Markov Processes

Abstract: This article presents a novel hyperspectral image (HSI) classification approach that integrates the sparse inducing variational Gaussian process (SIVGP) with a spatially adaptive Markov ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him?

Harvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him? When Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M.