The U.S. agency’s revised assessment of how the pandemic started is based on new intelligence.

Light: Science & Applications - Laser-sheet compressed ultrafast photography (LS-CUP) is the world’s fastest (> 1010 fps) real-time planar imaging camera for nanosecond...

An introductory post about complexity theory today!
It is relatively well-known that there exist so-called NP-complete problems --- particularly hard problems, such that, if you solve one of them efficiently, you can solve all of them efficiently.
I think…

A hot take.

Dreaming, memory-making, problem-solving: A lot happens during the most active sleep phase

A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor. Contribute to pulsar-edit/pulsar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

The obscure command set that gradually helped us move past acoustic couplers and brought dial-up modems into the mainstream. For a while, at least.

There are good reasons you always feel 20 percent younger than your actual age.

Explaining the discrepancy between Phobos's orbit and its apparent motion across the Martian sky