When you hit “send” on a text message, it is easy to imagine that the note will travel directly from your phone to your friend's. In fact, it typically goes on a long journey through a cellular ...

It is an open problem to show that in two-dimensional first-passage percolation, the sequence of finite geodesics from any point to (n, 0) has a limit in n. In this paper, we consider this question ...

We consider a stochastic SIR (susceptible → infective → recovered) epidemic defined on a configuration model random graph, in which infective individuals can infect only their neighbours in the graph ...

With the city experiencing a severe water crisis this summer, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) plan to construct close to 2,750 ...

Gandhinagar: On Union home minister and Gandhinagar Lok Sabha MP Amit Shah's recommendation to construct as many percolation wells and Khambhati kuvas as possible to mitigate waterlogging and enhance ...

People gather at a Kcoffee booth in Shanghai in May. CHEN YUYU/FOR CHINA DAILY Yum China Holdings Ltd is ramping up its coffee business with the rapid expansion of its Kcoffee brand, boosted by its ...