March Madness: How to watch and what to watch in the 2026 NCAA men’s basketball tournament

March Madness is almost here. Championship week for many conferences will sort out seeding for the top contenders and give bubble teams a chance to make the 68-team field when the bracket is unveiled ...

He Hatched a Plot to Kill Trump on a Napkin. The F.B.I. Was Listening.

Testimony and evidence in Asif Merchant’s trial has so far portrayed him as a zealous yet bumbling operative who never came ...
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Plan Optimal Collision-Free Trajectories With Nonconvex Cost Functions Using Graphs of Convex Sets

Abstract: The recently developed approach to motion planning in graphs of convex sets (GCS) provides an efficient framework for computing shortest-distance collision-free paths using convex ...

A rare six-planet alignment is lighting up the sky this week. Here’s how to see it.

Despite the dramatic name, these alignments aren’t exceptionally rare. The last six-planet parade occurred in January 2025, ...
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Extended Graph-enabled Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Distribution System Voltage Control Using Inaccurate Topology Information

Abstract: Anomalous measurements bring huge challenges for existing learning-based distribution system optimization methods. Although several graphical learning-based methods have been developed to ...