The leader of Britain’s “worst council” has been awarded an OBE, much to the chagrin of some residents. Claire Holland, the Labour leader of Lambeth Council in south London, was recognised in the New ...

In January 1993, a gunman murdered seven people in a fast-food restaurant in Palatine, a suburb of Chicago. In his dual roles as an administrative executive and spokesperson for the police department, ...

The OFIQ software library is intended to support large-scale biometrics programs with information about the usefulness of photos for biometric comparison.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline materials that consist of coordination bonds between transition-metal cations and multidentate organic linkers. The structure of MOFs is ...

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For more than 160 years, the National Academies have provided nonpartisan, evidence-based advice on decisions that affect our nation. Browse the listing of projects and activities to see examples of ...

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