Static electricity can remove up to three-quarters of frost from a surface, which could save vast amounts of energy and millions of tonnes of antifreeze currently used to defrost vehicles. In 2021, ...

At first glance, it’s a wonder that parasitic nematodes exist at all. To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—must leap 25 times their body length and land on a flying ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type ...

Variable Dice in HSR 3.0 lets you reroll sub-stat enhancement distributions on level 15 Relics It can be crafted from self-modelling resin, obtained from events or Nameless Honor. Variable dice cannot ...

The ability to declare a variable as static for a proc etc so global variables don't have to be used and thus stored in the BSS segment affecting efficiency. Closures could be used, at the expense of ...

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

This is a pre-publication version of the article that has been accepted for publication in the August 2024 edition of “CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.” Software vulnerabilities ...