FOXBOROUGH — Kevin Clark never lost faith that Saturday’s first World Cup game in these parts would actually take place at Boston Stadium. But after FIFA’s venue operations director was mostly ...

Hear more about the turfgrass research behind the World Cup pitches in our Science Quickly interview with John Trey Rogers III. Find the episode here. That is the nightmare FIFA has spent years trying ...

Grass trimmers are designed to keep lawn edges looking neat, but only the best can tidy and trim hard-to-reach grass without hassle. The worst we’ve tested leave behind straggly grass and stubborn ...

Abstract: This work presents a pioneering approach that utilizes plasma as a high-loss substrate. By designing a checkerboard metasurface on the dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD) plasma substrate, ...

@misc{jiang2021unofficialckbd, author={Jiang, Wei}, title={Unofficial Checkerboard Context Model}, howpublished={\url{https://github.com/JiangWeibeta/Checkerboard ...

Abstract: Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of ...

Paint3D is a novel coarse-to-fine generative framework that is capable of producing high-resolution, lighting-less, and diverse 2K UV texture maps for untextured 3D meshes conditioned on text or image ...

'Tis the season for tending green grasses. As the year marches on, our minds turn to our yards, and we crank up the lawn mowers and prepare our watering and fertilizing schedules. This year, some ...

Mowing may be time consuming but is a critical part of maintaining a vigorous lawn. Healthy, well-managed grass not only looks better, but is more resilient to drought and other stresses. Proper ...