The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth's seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at the end of the … | Continue reading
I've talked about computer workstation ergonomics before, but one topic I didn't address is lighting. We computer geeks like it dark. Really dark. Ideally, we'd be in a cave. A cave … with an internet connection. The one thing that we can't abide is direct overhead lighting. E … | Continue reading
The era of Silicon Valley exceptionalism is over. | Continue reading
An innovative analysis of two-dimensional (2D) materials from engineers at the University of Surrey could boost the development of next-generation solar cells and LEDs. | Continue reading
The results of the 2020 presidential election. The alleged dangers of the COVID vaccine. Disinformation continues to have a significant effect on almost every aspect of our lives, and some of the biggest sources of disinformation are the social platforms that we spend a large par … | Continue reading
GROW by Daan Roosegaarde highlights the beauty of agriculture. | Continue reading
Action, reaction, overreaction: Once the virus gets in, the immune system can overreact—with deadly consequences. | Continue reading
How we receive LoRa packets transmitted by PineCone BL602 RISC-V Board ... With RAKwireless WisBlock in Arduino | Continue reading
A year ago, just after Bay Area governments imposed a shelter-in-place order to check the spread of a mysterious new coronavirus, Cristina Banks worried about how she would work from home. She would miss her office at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She would miss interact … | Continue reading
Rich countries' failure to lead a coordinated global response to the pandemic has been regarded as a moral failure. But now that the continued spread of the virus elsewhere is producing new variants, it has turned out to be a practical failure, too. | Continue reading
The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun duri … | Continue reading
RxJava, once the hottest framework in Android development, is dying. It's worth taking a moment to understand what happened. | Continue reading
Kaitlin McCreery is the coauthor of a new paper published in Small that deals with diagnosing diseases such as osteoarthritis in soft tissue. McCreery is currently a Ph.D. student in the Neu Lab where she studies the biophysical relationship between cells and tissues to gain insi … | Continue reading
When you think of fungi, you'll probably picture a huddle of chubby brown mushrooms, or the large, red-capped toadstools you stumble across in the woods. In doing so, you're reducing fungi to their reproductive organs—tasty or striking as they may often be. | Continue reading
Disruptions to food and health systems because of COVID-19 are causing rates of malnutrition to rise substantially. Experts predict that severe hunger around the worldwill more than double over the course of the pandemicand in many parts of the world malnutrition will kill more p … | Continue reading
Ten years ago, on March 11 2011, a devastating earthquake occurred along part of a fault that scientists believe had not ruptured for more than a thousand years. The quake triggered a tsunami that caused more than 15,000 deaths in Japan, as well as a serious nuclear accident at a … | Continue reading
A surprising number of COVID-recovered patients deal with an array of troublesome symptoms, well after the disease is gone | Continue reading
Mainframes are still going strong after 70 years. | Continue reading
Posted by Kim Lewandowski & Dan Lorenc, Google Open Source Security Team One of the fundamental security issues with open source is that it’... | Continue reading
If you've gone into your local independent grocery store recently, chances are you'll still find a shortage of items like toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies. | Continue reading
The pandemic has been devastating to restaurants, as well as the rest of the hospitality industry. But as damaging as it's been, the ensuing shutdown has shown that restaurants have worked creatively to keep serving food to an eager audience and now have the opportunity to change … | Continue reading
An ambitious target to reduce emissions, but can it slow global warming? | Continue reading
Jan Donges in Scientific American: “Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!” (“Can only have been painted by a madman!”) appears on Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s most famous painting The Scream. Infrared images at Norway’s National Museum in Oslo recently confirmed that Munch himsel … | Continue reading
5 way to get organic users for your brand new product. Get early traction and your first feeback for your startup | Continue reading
UK video call firm Starleaf is plotting an IPO in London after demand for its services surged during the pandemic, City A.M. can reveal. | Continue reading
One of the women accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of workplace sexual harassment has come forward with additional details of an... | Continue reading
Jelani Cobb in The New Yorker: One of the oldest imperatives of American electoral politics is to define your opponents before they can define themselves. So it was not surprising when, in the summer of 1963, Nelson Rockefeller, a centrist Republican governor from New York, launc … | Continue reading
It’s not how you look on the outside, but what’s on the inside that makes you a monster. This is especially true in Gabriela Houston’s newest novel, The Second Bell. Explore Houst… | Continue reading
Please insert 25¢ to continue grieving. | Continue reading
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms | Continue reading
The use of diagrams in geometry raise questions about the place of the physical, the sensory, the human in mathematical reasoning. Multiple sources of evidence speak to how these dilemmas were tackled in antiquity: the linguistics of diagram construction, the state of drawings in … | Continue reading
Alaska is renowned for its postcard pretty mountains, vast spaces and massive earthquakes. | Continue reading
Although Mirantis had originally planned to sunset the orchestration engine Swarm, long time Docker users have convinced the cloud company to continue development and offer it as a choice alongside Kubernetes. | Continue reading
In this post, we share some of the best practices we apply when SoundCloud engineers take on out-of-hours support duties. | Continue reading
Five years ago, STOIC was going through a very intense period of QA and bug fixing. Consequently, there was very little that I could really contribute. | Continue reading
A new genome-wide CRISPR screening technique conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University is offering new insights about how tumors in 80 to 90% of all cancers grow. | Continue reading