The 3-pointer changed college basketball. And attempts keep ticking up heading into March Madness

College basketball teams are continuing to lean more and more on the 3-point shot. That comes in the 40th season since the 3-pointer was fully integrated into the sport. Division I teams took ...
Scientific American

Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...
IEEE

An Application of Three-Phase PWM AC-DC-AC Rectifiter

Abstract: This article explores the working principles, benefits, and a method for control of a three phase PWM AC-DC-AC rectifier. Three-phase PWM AC-DC-AC rectifiers are widely used in industrial ...
American Institute of Physics

Charles Thorn Awarded 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2026 — AIP and the American Physical Society are honored to award Charles Thorn with the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Thorn is being recognized for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Historians Say They’ve Discovered a Long-Lost Page From the Archimedes Palimpsest, a Treasure Trove of Rare Ancient Mathematical Treatises

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the archives of a French museum ...
IEEE

Design and Characterization of GaN Bidirectional Switches Enabled Commutation Cell for Three-Phase Current Source Converter Applications

Abstract: Monolithic solutions enabled by SiC BiDFETs and GaN HEMT technology, offer alternatives to the traditional discrete implementations using MOSFETs and diodes used in current source converters ...