Just go ahead and say it, nobody minds anymore. Political leaders cursing into hot mics was just the final boss of "f**k" ...

A 3.6-GHz digital fractional-N frequency synthesizer achieving low noise and 500-kHz bandwidth is presented. This architecture uses a gated-ring-oscillator time-to-digital converter (TDC) with 6-ps ...

A Canadian school board in Baden, Ontario, has denied teaching its staff that the word "family" is racist. The claims first surfaced in a news article, which revealed details from a presentation ...

Our brains swear for good reasons: to vent, cope, boost our grit and feel closer to those around us. Swear words can act as social glue and play meaningful roles in how people communicate, connect and ...

" You can imagine if we've underpredicted the frequency of some event, say a 10-foot storm surge actually occurs every five years on average compared to every 100 years, you may have under-designed ...

In this paper, we present new distributed controllers for secondary frequency and voltage control in islanded microgrids. Inspired by techniques from cooperative control, the proposed controllers use ...

TODAY’S WORD — ETHNICITY (ETHNICITY: eth-NI-suh-tee: Large group affiliation based upon common characteristics, e.g., race.) Average mark 22 words Time limit 35 minutes Can you find 29 … ...

Like any self-respecting four-letter word, "nice" has many connotations. Centuries ago, "nice" meant someone was ignorant; now it has very different meanings. And that, as they say, is "noice." ...

TODAY’S WORD — MONARDA (MONARDA: muh-NAR-da: A North American mint with showy flowers.) Average mark 15 words Time limit 25 minutes Can you find 20 or more words in MONARDA? The list will be ...