"Whatever I am, that I want to understand."

Since transformers have such a big impact on everyone's research agenda, I wanted to flesh out a short reading list for machine learning researchers and prac...

A pair of archaeologists with Lund University in Sweden has found "a treasure trove" of plants aboard a sunken 15th-century Norse ship. Mikael Larsson and Brendan Foley describe their findings in PLOS ...

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.

A Chicago federal judge has handed a key victory to students suing a group of elite U.S. universities and colleges over their financial aid practices, saying they can question school officials and search for records about whether "wealth favoritism" played…

An FDA-approved drug some are calling ‘magic’ has shown the ability to restore lost memories and reveal previously hidden knowledge.

It was the second week of December 2017, and my wife and I were at Heathrow airport, waiting to board a flight to Germany. Just before setting off for the departure gate, I couldn’t resist checking my email just one last time. My attention concentrated when…

Status flags are a key part of most processors, indicating if an arithmetic result is negative, zero, or has a carry, for instance. In thi...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed China was using a "crew of balloons" around the world.

On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process—the acceptance rate is reportedly…

The SARS-Cov2 coronavirus's genome was released, and is now available on Genbank. Looking at it...
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Open-source software (OSS) sits at the center of almost every digital technology moving the world since the early 1980s—laptops, cellphones, widespread internet connectivity, cloud computing, social media, automation, all the rainbow flavors of e-commerce…

American suburbs mandated single-family homes generations ago, often to segregate areas by race and class. New laws allow more-affordable options like townhomes but construction so far has been slow.

The downing over the Yukon Territory was the second in as many days as North America appeared on higher alert following the China spy balloon. The U.S. offered no new details on the object shot down over Alaska.

When it comes to home automation, people often end up with devices
supporting the Zigbee or Z-Wave protocols, but those devices are
relatively expensive. When I was looking for a way to keep an eye on the
temperature at home a few years ago, I bought a bunch…