It's that time of year when familiar songs return to the radio—thoughts of Last Christmas, A Fairytale of New York, and of course Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea. This festive classic was written in around 1978, and it got us wondering, if you find yourself miles from you … | Continue reading
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (the Table Mountain) lying about 85 million light-years away. It is a spiral galaxy, as evidenced by its characteristic whirling, pinwheeling arms, and it has a bar … | Continue reading
This is a guest post from Josh Thompson. Enjoy. Dear New Developer, You know that there’s a chasm between your skill level and that of the mythical “senior software developer”. If… | Continue reading
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will return to land at NASA's White Sands facility on Sunday after failing its mission to autonomously rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station, officials said Friday. | Continue reading
I've spent the past 12 months working intensely with open source developers. In previous ventures I worked on, my teams and I used open-source libraries, but this was the first time I actually crossed the lines from just another faceless person git cloning some code, to actually … | Continue reading
Don’t be shy when presenting to others! I am addicted to consuming all kinds of blog posts and videos from conferences – I spend a fair amount of time reading/hearing materials created … | Continue reading
That’s an exciting surprise! | Continue reading
Here it is: the final chapter in our 100 best movies of the decade countdown. These 20 films sum up the past 10 years better than anything. | Continue reading
A review of the new Netflix series The Witcher, based on the hit books and games, starring Henry Cavill. | Continue reading
Play the Memory Game with this cute winter memory game printable. | Continue reading
Keeps all your fingers and the backs of both hands nice and toasty, even in sub-freezing temperatures. | Continue reading
An artificial intelligence built by Facebook has learned to solve university-level calculus problems in seconds | Continue reading
A major review into the low rate of successful rape prosecutions has suggested that there is a "larger systemic problem" in how complex cases such as rapes are investigated by the UK police and prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service. Despite an increase in the number of repo … | Continue reading
Researchers of the UT found a new way to protect data from attacks with quantum computers. As they published today in New Journal of Physics. With quantum computers on the rise, we can no longer exclude the possibility that a quantum computer will become so powerful it can break … | Continue reading
A chemist from RUDN University has developed a catalyst for the production of eugenol acetate, a substance that destroys the larvae of mosquitoes transmitting dangerous diseases. The article was published in the journal Materials. | Continue reading
Student performance matters. Students who perform well have better health, earn a larger income and contribute more to society than those who perform poorly. | Continue reading
A hopeful celebration of female camaraderie and strength. | Continue reading
The rules that make films great | Continue reading
While Feng’s latest may be unbearably sentimental and too blunt, it’s also good enough, if you’re looking for a little romance and a good cry. | Continue reading
A smart, affectionately made tale about an underdog and his musher. | Continue reading
Bolt is using technology to improve urban mobility. We are working towards a future with less traffic, fewer parking lots and lighter… | Continue reading
tl;dr Metaflow is a framework that alleviates several infrastructure-related pains data scientists experience in their projects. It takes… | Continue reading
People can hardly imagine a city without night-time street lighting. But how do nocturnal animals such as bats respond to the illuminated urban landscape? In a recent study, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), together with German an … | Continue reading
When making decisions, ask yourself, What would (person) do? | Continue reading
Ants and honeybees share nests of hundreds or thousands of individuals in a very small space. Hence the risk is high that infectious diseases may spread rapidly. In order to reduce this risk, the animals have developed special social behaviors that are referred to as "social immu … | Continue reading
Technique may help remotely image and assess health of infants, burn victims, and accident survivors in hard-to-reach places. | Continue reading
How we leverage the information a user provides at registration to surface the best personalized music recommendations in real-time. | Continue reading
A RUDN chemist and colleagues from Iran have developed a new strategy for producing hollow, porous catalysts for the Heck coupling reaction. These catalysts are characterized by a flower-like structure. They consist of graphene, on the surface of which layered aluminum-cobalt hyd … | Continue reading
A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania has found evidence that suggests higher CO2 levels in the future may adversely impact the cognitive abilities of students in classrooms. The grou … | Continue reading
There should be interstellar comets hiding in our solar system after making a journey of many light-years. Maybe we have already seen one but believed it was a "normal" comet formed in the solar system, according to Tom Hands, astrophysicist at the University of Zürich and member … | Continue reading
Recent studies have shown that under the axonal membrane, rings composed of actin filaments give the structure its flexibility. But those studies had not been able to define the precise architecture of these rings. By combining two microscopy techniques, optical and electronic, F … | Continue reading
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have identified the molecular mechanisms that allow cells to survive mechanical stress. The results, published today in Nature Communications, show that cells produce molecules that act as a type of "air … | Continue reading
A pair of biomedical law experts, one with McGill University the other Stanford University, are suggesting in a Policy Forum piece in the journal Science that it might be time to expand the legal term for "human." In their paper, Bartha Knoppers and Henry Greely argue that recent … | Continue reading
Heather Handley pointed out two large photos on her poster at AGU Fall Meeting last week: a bouncing kangaroo and a dreamy beach scene, two things commonly associated with Australia, where Handley is an associate professor in volcanology at Macquarie University. But Handley wasn' … | Continue reading
The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have missed. | Continue reading
It engulfed everything, and look where we are now. | Continue reading
An app I created just crossed 1,000 purchases last month so it’s a good time to reflect on my “business model”. It’s pay what you want… | Continue reading
The future of Facebook’s Libra may lie in its blockchain, and what third-party developers do with it, than anything to do with the stablecoin. | Continue reading
David, Devindra, Jeff, and Peter awaken to devote an entire episode to Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, the third installment in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Are the cast ready for the return of the J.J. Abrams? Or are they reminiscing the last director? Stay tuned … | Continue reading
If you've been to the beach, you're familiar with the joys of beach food—all the way from shaved ice raspados in Mexico to fish and chips in England. And in many cases these treats come bundled up in plastic. A particularly prevalent example is the takeaway container or cup made … | Continue reading
"Whoopi' the manta ray—a regular visitor to Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef—has helped University of Queensland and Murdoch University scientists study rays' impressive ability to heal. | Continue reading