Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Spaceflight is a booming business. In 2020, the world’s first private manned space mission heralded a new era of increased accessibility to spaceflight. Since then, actors and civilians have been taken above the clouds, too—and it looks like things are only getting faster with the increase in economies centered on […]
Oil is one of the greatest necessities in the modern world. Few industries impact civilization so thoroughly as its production, which yields fuel, medicine, detergent, plastic, and other daily particulars. Yet oil mining operations encounter complexities that affect each of these key markets. In addition, while a rig supervisor is […]
At 828 meters high, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)’s Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building. The company’s structural engineering teams not only innovated the buttressed core system for the tower’s skeleton, but also produced the Cayan and Pearl River Towers in Dubai and Guangzhou, respectively. These marvels of metal […]
Chess has long been one of the most effective ways to evaluate a computer program’s ability to “think.” With sixty-four squares on the board, sixteen pieces per player, and a variety of rules for how each piece is allowed to move during the match, chess is a game in which […]