Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under UZH's lead has now traced families of related languages over more than 10,000 years by combining data from genetics, linguist … | Continue reading
Giant anteaters living in less forested habitats make use of larger home ranges, according to a study by Aline Giroux at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul and colleagues, publishing August 18 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. This behavior may allow them to incorpor … | Continue reading
The 21st century has undoubtedly been the era of quantum science. Quantum mechanics was born in the early 20th century and has been used to develop unprecedented technologies which include quantum information, quantum communication, quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum … | Continue reading
Recreational fishing in the U.S. is largely a personal hobby that scales up to a multibillion-dollar economic activity. More than 44 million people in the U.S. identify as recreational anglers making this hobby second only to jogging in terms of popular outdoor activities. | Continue reading
Katy Börner's Atlas of Forecasts is packed full of interesting ways to model our world and predict what will happen. The question is, will people accept their wisdom? | Continue reading
The night sky has wowed people since the dawn of time, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a good view, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Continue reading
The study of human evolution has neglected huge areas of Earth, and recent discoveries from Arabia suggest these places have a lot to tell us | Continue reading
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss | Continue reading
GitHub is urging its user base to toggle on two-factor authentication (2FA) after deprecating password-based authentication for Git operations. | Continue reading
Hello! Welcome to your first and final flight to space.Let me be the first to say that it has been so, so sad that Earth has been ravaged by war, ... | Continue reading
Fossil meteorites are one of the hardest geological treasures to discover – but now a spate of finds is revealing surprises about Earth’s ancient atmosphere | Continue reading
Maya Da-Rin's new film, The Fever, tells the story of a security guard who gets a mysterious illness. Its quiet power is demanding for the viewer but will make you question your own life choices | Continue reading
Covid-19 has resulted in an explosion of single use plastics, such as personal protective equipment. You can help fight it by joining the Covid Litter project, says Layal Liverpool | Continue reading
A stunning collection of images are among the winners and runners up of this year’s BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition | Continue reading
As a developer pulls an app, Congress is eying forcing Apple to open up iOS. | Continue reading
For the vast majority of people, COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. But further research is needed to understand the causes of rare adverse events. | Continue reading
Regenerating natural systems will draw carbon out of the atmosphere and help tackle climate change. We must recarbonise Earth now, says Jonathon Porritt | Continue reading
A Florida couple hilariously turned a lamp on and off in their home just by just touching the nose of their cat. | Continue reading
Larry Dean Harmon, the CEO of darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix, pled guilty Wednesday in D.C. District Court. | Continue reading
An online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more. | Continue reading
The Statue of liberty was a gift from France to America, commemorating the two nations’ friendship and shared love of freedom. Completed in 1886, it marked one of the world’s first, successful crowdfunding projects. The famous poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, mounted in b … | Continue reading
(Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Cobra Kai has three seasons under its belt, and the three dojos — Eagle Fang, Miyagi-Do, and Kreese’s Cobra Kai … | Continue reading
Something new is on the way. But first, some history. Basecamp Classic, the very first version of Basecamp, launched in 2004. In 2012, we followed up with the all-new Basecamp 2, the first major ground-up redesign in the product's history. Then we did it again in 2015 with Baseca … | Continue reading
An objective observer would have a very difficult time defended this practice. | Continue reading
Elon Musk discusses his engineering thought process while designing manufacturing at Tesla and SpaceX | Continue reading
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is barely usable after Microsoft officially ends support for the browser in Microsoft 365. | Continue reading
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalizations was stable, but it declined against new infections among adults in New York during May–July 2021. | Continue reading
What’s the difference between a galette and a crostata anyway? | Continue reading
11 ways to build a random quote machine. Using React to build the UI. | Continue reading
i learned that elephants stay cancer free as they have 20 copies of a key tumor-fighting gene; humans have just one (x) | Continue reading
This door knocker by Derek BernsteinAvailable here : Etsy | Continue reading
Aditi Rao Hydari in Sabyasachi Mukherjee | Continue reading
I recently did a PC power supply teardown so I figured it would be interesting to go deeper and see what happens inside the power supply'... | Continue reading
The Bird Girl, Photo by Pieter Henket, 2017 | Continue reading
Rawdah Mohamed by Jacqueline Landvik for Vogue Scandinavia , August 2021 | Continue reading
A full-fledged Fionna and Cake series is coming to HBO Max, continuing the Adventure Time franchise for a new generation. | Continue reading
For five years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? A trap? Or a complete waste of time? | Continue reading
Ashley Carman at The Verge details a lot of complaints about Apple Podcasts Subscriptions: But in the months since Apple Podcasts’ announcement, podcasters say the platform has failed them in vario… | Continue reading
Where’s Waldo (or Where’s Wally) is a very popular book series for all ages. One way to make it potentially more interesting is to adapt it to interplanetary exploration by searching for a Martian rover in a picture taken from a Martian helicopter. Ingenuity took a picture on i … | Continue reading
In an un-Apple-like move, it will give users the ability to opt-out of Safari's controversial redesign. | Continue reading
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa said the fire happened last Friday | Continue reading