Abstract: This paper presents a set-membership control approach for formation tracking in heterogeneous leader-following multi-agent systems. In order to improve the adaptability of the control ...

A rare deep-field Antarctic flight campaign has uncovered unexpected aerosol concentrations over the continent’s interior.

Computer simulations reveal that spraying sea salt aerosols may keep global temperatures near 2020 levels as air pollution falls—but may also redraw regional weather patterns.

Abstract: Affine formation control (AFC) is a subset of formation control methods that enables coordinated multiagent movement while preserving affine relationships, and has recently gained increasing ...

Residents at the Ponderosa RV Park in Kissimmee say weeks of turnpike construction next to their homes have left them covered in soot, dust, and diesel fumes. Gabbard whistleblower complaint based on ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

As winter storms coat the region, a familiar trend is once again circulating on social media. Viral videos show people taking lighters to snowballs, claiming that the snow must be synthetic or plastic ...

The researchers produced a report that was central in a Trump administration effort to stop regulating climate pollution. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington A federal judge on Friday ruled the ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

The St. Louis Science Center is making some big changes. One month ago today, the Saint Louis Science Center convened a meeting of staff assigned to its Community Science program—and then informed all ...