https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1065953 Researchers have explored a fascinating cooling phenomenon within halide perovskite-based “dots-in-crystal” materials, uncovering both their promise and challenges. In a groundbreaking study, scientists from Chiba University invest … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Even if you know nothing about rap music, you've likely heard of the feud between arguable greatest rapper of all time Kendrick Lamar (new album out now!) and Degrassi star Drake. — Read the rest The post Drake is suing … | Continue reading
[Content Note: Drugs, Violence Sexual Assault, Death] Silphium isn't extinct; it's just a tightly guarded secret. If you go spelunking through the bio-history of this planet you'll find a range of plants which don't make sense. The avocado has a humongous fruit which can't easily … | Continue reading
Europe must get much better at scaling startups. That’s the prognosis of the European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, who’s on the cusp of taking up her second five-year term steering the bloc of some 449 million people — with a December 1 start date now locked in. Givin … | Continue reading
William Penn's treaty, Peace and War just before the Franco-Prussian War, its Armistice in 1871, and finally paintings of the end of the First World War and the original Cenotaph in London. | Continue reading
A Chinese mobile tech company known for its rugged devices has launched what's claimed to be the world's first 5G rugged tablet that also packs a built-in DLP projector. The Tank Pad also features an 800-lumen light to brighten up camping adventures. Continue Reading Category: Mo … | Continue reading
When I first joined the BlueSky social network last year, I remember being struck by the notion that I could select a custom hosting provider. I didn't fully understand what this meant, beyond the fact that it allowed me to link my account to a privately-owned domain name. — Read … | Continue reading
One of our favorite rugged outdoor fitness trackers is under $200 at Amazon right now. | Continue reading
YOU CAN give the gift of Tom the Dancing Bug this holiday season! Volumes of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug book collection are available for purchase, including THE TOM THE DANCING BUG HOLIDAY SIX-PAK: For a limited two-week long Black Friday, you can buy all six books at a sp … | Continue reading
Chinese officials have announced the discovery of a massive deposit of high-quality gold ore, potentially worth around $83 billion, which could end up being the largest known deposit of the precious metal anywhere in the world. | Continue reading
In need of festive gift inspiration? Take a cue from our readers, who reveal the most meaningful presents they’ve received The post Revealed: the best Christmas gifts you’ve ever received appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
Cyberpunk 2077 has had a rocky history, perhaps more so than most other games in recent memory. Wher deadlines resulted in the game originally being rushed out as a buggy mess back in 2020, many gamers declared it dead on arrival, or worse, a cheap cash grab put out by a studio c … | Continue reading
Time for a heaving link dump becuase I'm well into triple figures in my Raindrop inbox. First up are a pair of intorductions: one to Alpine.js by Blake of HTML for People fame and one for htmx. I'm always on the lookout for something a bit less complicated than a full-on framewor … | Continue reading
The National Park Service does it again! I've written before about their awesome social media accounts, and I'm back to share more. This time it's Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota that's posted their take on the hottest movie of the week—Wicked. — Read the rest Th … | Continue reading
The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we’ve learned that that’s not true: that NSO Group em … | Continue reading
I really like the designs that artist Henry Taylor creates for his Theme Park Preservation Society project. He devises illustrations and objects that look like perfectly authentic artifacts from the universe of Disney theme parks. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest … | Continue reading
U.S. presidential administrations tend to have big impacts on tech around the world. So it should be taken as a given that when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, his second administration will do the same. Perhaps more than usual, even, as he staffs his cabinet … | Continue reading
Combining quantum science with machine learning has led to a model that can accurately measure how surfaces feel to the touch. | Continue reading
In 1987, a female orca near Puget Sound began wearing a dead salmon on her head. Other whales in her pod, along with two other pods, joined in on the fashion trend and also started wearing salmon hats. Fashion trends among cetaceans must be fleeting because no more salmon hats we … | Continue reading
During my Outreachy internship with GNOME, Tamnjong Larry Tabeh and I conducted user research exercises under the inspiring mentorship of Allan Day and Aryan Kaushik. In this blog post, I’ll discuss the usability test we conducted for GNOME’s Files, also known as Nautilus. This b … | Continue reading
Stream your favorite nature documentaries, natural disaster movies and science TV shows ahead of Thanksgiving and Christmas with these Black Friday streaming deals. | Continue reading
A new technique employing monochromatic light improves the study of internal structures in materials affected by light scattering, enabling detailed observation of particle concentrations. When driving through a bank of fog, car headlights are only moderately helpful since the li … | Continue reading
Yesterday was sunny, with lovely blue skies. It was also part of Julie’s first full week of retirement, and she wanted to go back into the city of Norwich. She needed to change something bought on our recent trip there, and buy some more wrapping paper. I agreed to accompany her, … | Continue reading
Following the unexpected death of the Czech musician Vojtěch Havel last month, Miloš Hroch offers a guide to the extraordinary work he created in partnership with his wife Irena, picking out nine essential releases Irena and Vojtech Havlovi. Photo by Milan Bures “The music seeped … | Continue reading
At a week-long police boot camp, a shy girl from Copenhagen learns to handcuff suspects, respond to riots and handle guns - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
President-elect Donald Trump pledges to escalate the trade war, but non-Western nations have targeted China with tariffs, too. | Continue reading
A man experienced cardiac arrest after eating a different flavor of candy than he had historically. | Continue reading
The IKEA As-is section is the most important stop on the IKEA maze for budget-conscious home decorators. Those limited-edition pieces, slightly imperfect furniture, and discontinued designs can save you hundreds – if you know where to look. But who has the time to constantly chec … | Continue reading
The Anarchist’s Gift Guide – comprised only of stuff we have bought and used in our shop – starts today and runs over the next 13 days. Chris started this “gift guide” years ago (read past recommendations here) after watching a woodworking TV personality’s “gift guide” for one of … | Continue reading
Rose Lundy, The Maine Monitor This article was produced by The Maine Monitor, which was a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in 2022-23. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. … | Continue reading
Have you ever wanted to learn to play the mouth trumpet? I recently stumbled upon Emma Nissen, a singer/songwriter who plays a mean mouth trumpet—her mouth trumpet is so good, I swear it sounds like an actual trumpet. It kind of blows my mind, actually. — Read the rest The post L … | Continue reading
Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, but exactly how they do it has long remained a mystery. | Continue reading
Save $88 on this Coway Airmega AP-1512HH air purifier at Amazon Black Friday and save energy too, thanks to its impressive eco mode. | Continue reading
Proba-3 is a groundbreaking mission that relies on the teamwork of two spacecraft to unlock the Sun’s secrets. While the Coronagraph spacecraft captures the faint glow of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the Occulter spacecraft acts as a shield, blocking the intense light of the solar … | Continue reading
The powerful Celestron SkyMaster 25x100 are now 22% off for Black Friday — get unparalleled views of the cosmos for $389 in this Black Friday binocular deal. | Continue reading
It’s been a news-filled few weeks — so it’s time for a roundup. On this week’s episode of Shift Key, Rob and Jesse talk about what Trump’s cabinet selections might mean for his climate policy and whether permitting reform could still happen. Then Rob chats with Corey Cantor, seni … | Continue reading
by Nick Grube, Honolulu Civil Beat This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Honolulu Civil Beat. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. … | Continue reading
We appreciate illuminated manuscripts and historical books here on Open Culture, adhere though we do to a much more restrained aesthetic style in our own texts. But that’s not to deny the temptation to start this paragraph with one of those oversized initial letters that grew eve … | Continue reading
Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable and long-lasting system | Continue reading
From KnockoutJS to modern UI libraries like SolidJS, Vue.js, and Svelte, signals revolutionized how we think about reactivity in UIs. Here’s a deep dive into their history and impact by Atila Fassina. | Continue reading
Even when a creative work is made by humans, we think it’s missing a key element of art if we think it's been written by an AI — that capacity to fully immerse you in the world being created. | Continue reading
The director of Netflix’s “Buy Now!” says companies should be accountable for the trash they generate. | Continue reading
About 80 townships and counties are challenging the state's Public Service Commission over how it plans to implement a new permitting-reform law. | Continue reading
This is the third part of a fiction serial, in 840 words. Working in the environment of a gangster’s hangout, Tony knew that he was going to get picked on. He was new, he was the youngest, and he was sleeping with the woman who used to be available to many of them. Eventually, th … | Continue reading
Researchers have identified that G-quadruplexes promote harmful protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases. Blocking G4s with 5-ALA stopped Parkinson’s-like symptoms in mice, suggesting a promising path for early disease intervention. Researchers at Kumamoto University hav … | Continue reading
Before buying a house, it makes sense to spend a day on foot, walking around the neighborhood. You’ll notice things you might have missed in a car. Before starting a business, spend a few shifts working the cash register at a similar establishment. And before going into marketing … | Continue reading
One of the highlights of Thanksgiving in the United States is the food, as seen through the lens of Google Trends. Tags: food, Google Trends, Thanksgiving | Continue reading
Rather than forging a new identity, she returns to old paths. Moana is not following her inner voice. She is listening to the echoes of her ancestors. | Continue reading