From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.

an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other

Raccourcis : Guide pratique des biais cognitifs

Shortcuts: A handy guide to cognitive biases

Posted by Neil Zeghidour, Research Scientist and Marco Tagliasacchi, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research Audio codecs are used to efficiently...

Last month, having returned to Earth aboard his Blue Origin spacecraft, Jeffrey Bezos, the chairman of Amazon and, as of this month,…

Can we still have faith in psychology in the face of the ‘replication crisis’? Perhaps, but the field has a much larger problem to tackle.

Nature - Pachyderms have extra copies of a key tumour-fighting gene.

Computational genetic engineering has enabled a method of "trapping" and killing viruses.

 

Having high levels of sugar in your diet is known to be bad for your health, but cutting it out can be difficult, particularly as it can trigger a range of unpleasant symptoms.

ABSTRACT. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been conducted for nearly 60 yr. A Dyson sphere, a spherical structure that surrounds a star a

A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you weren't, or didn't even know you could.

A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations. - GitHub - ManimCommunity/manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.

I wanted to backed this up yesterday but I couldn't find the screenshots until this morning. You can see my battery is at 18% and the ride (which is normally $25-$30) is hiked up to $81. I saw it change instantly. The price dipped once I charged my phone…

A collective list of free APIs. Contribute to public-apis/public-apis development by creating an account on GitHub.

Frescoed relic frozen by ash from Vesuvius eruption reveals snack bar used by poor residents of Roman city

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While some are a nuisance, others working as nighttime pollinators may be critically important to a functioning ecosystem

“My habitual email checking was key to my problem,” this postdoc writes