A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

Any plan to send a human crew to explore Moon or Mars requires many tons of propellant to blast off from Moon or Mars for return to Earth. Two propellants are needed: (a) a fuel, typically either ...

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Most embedded architects think of AI as a coding shortcut. But the real power isn’t in cranking out boilerplate code, it’s in transforming how we design systems. Imagine capturing key decisions in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nathan Goldman is a tax prof. at NC State Univ. If Trump’s tariffs in the year 2025 have taught us anything, it is that tax policy ...

Every developer and team I’ve ever met has wanted to deliver quality firmware to their customers. No one starts out saying, “I want to deliver a buggy, unusable product to my customer.” Yet, how often ...

Unlike smooth laminar flow, turbulence unleashes swirling chaos that reveals hidden power in fluids. Inside Bill Gates's Garage: These Are His Most Incredible Cars How a Passenger Jet Was Destroyed in ...

Many authors have written about the harm of oversimplification, pointing out that it distorts reality, leads to shallow understanding, impairs problem-solving, and fuels biases. In culture wars, it ...

There comes a time before every big purchase when you might ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” If you don’t pause for a moment — and if you tend to blow your budget as a result — then you need to ...