In recent years, we have been witnessing a paradigm shift in computational materials science. In fact, traditional methods, mostly developed in the second half of the XXth century, are being complemented, extended, and sometimes even completely replaced by ...
Motivated by the goal of designing interventions for softening polarized opinions on the Web, and building on results from psychology, we hypothesized that people would be moved more easily towards opposing opinions when the latter were voiced by a celebri ...
In recent years, breakthroughs in methods and data have enabled gravitational time delays to emerge as a very powerful tool to measure the Hubble constant H-0. However, published state-of-the-art analyses require of order 1 yr of expert investigator time a ...
The Saddle Dam D at the Hydroelectric Power project Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic failed on July 23, 2018. An Independent Expert Panel (IEP) was established to investigate into and report on the failure of the embankment dam. Th ...
