A researcher working alone—apart from the world and the rest of the wider scientific community—is a classic yet misguided image. Research is, in reality, built on continuous exchange within the scientific ...

You’re working on the most complex problem in computer science: fixing permissions on a deployment pipeline. It’s been 4 days you started on that simple task...

Immunotherapy is making tumors melt away.

French acrobatic artist Bastien Dausse's work is "centered on (im)balance and the desire to play with gravity." To that end, Dausse co-founded a troupe, Compagnie Barks, whose performances are centered around gravity and the subversion of it. For their Moon…

ASCII, a standard whose legacy defines to this day how most of the letters and numbers in your computer get encoded into ones and zeroes, is elegant and beautiful. Via lessons in computer history, punched tape, and typewriters, I'd love to share some of its…

“You’ve changed your earrings.” I was sitting opposite a prisoner I worked with regularly, and he’d noticed I’d switched from sleepers to studs. He also observed that I’d caught some sun, my hair was lighter, I had a scratch on the back of one hand. This…

There was five-thousandths of a second between the top two.

An acoustic experiment reveals that spooky forest sounds may come from above.

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing…

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The Klamath River is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.

The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more.

This post explains why we'll keep building more,

Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumours

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The growing quality in AI images makes them harder to spot. Can you tell if an image is real or AI generated?

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GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated…

Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives.