When we digitize historical maps we create copies that can be shared and used by all. But we also create the potential to repurpose these copies to advance u...

Mathematics for Robotics. Contribute to michiganrobotics/rob501 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jonathan the 190-year-old tortoise has become the oldest tortoise ever. He was photographed in 1886, so his pictures now span over 136 years.

To attract new users, Facebook (FB) made deals with cellular carriers in countries including Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines

Researchers created a gas bubble that lived for 465 days, a world record for this type of object.

A Swedish startup is training wild crows to pick up cigarette butts and other small pieces of litter. Their method will soon be ready for testing in the city of Södertälje.

The communication from FedEx’s media relations team was brief. “Dan,” a FedEx employee identified over email only as “Media Relations” wrote, “The shipment...

Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it might be an architect’s own design for desk. The sheet set off a…

A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it’s unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a…

A surge in identity theft during the pandemic underscores how easy it has become to obtain people’s private data. As hackers are all too happy to explain, many of them are cashing in on it.

The only reasonable scripting engine for Go. Contribute to ichiban/prolog development by creating an account on GitHub.

If this isn't the famous robbery scene, from Arsenal MS. 5070 Boccaccio Decameron its as close as I can bother to get for a...

A detailed explanation of Bézier curves, and how to do the many things that we commonly want to do with them.