The $1.50 price of a Costco hot dog—a quarter-pound all-beef dog, bun, and drink—is sacred. But a recent analysis finds that its effective price increased by 77 cents between 2023 and 2026.

INTRODUCTION
Plasma proteomics detect multi-pathway biological changes preceding dementia onset. The Dementia SomaSignal Test (dSST) is a validated 25-protein score predicting 5- and 20-year all-cau...

In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry
established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still
serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the
JIS standard was released people noticed…

Nature - Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

From glaciers shrinking to an exposed shipwreck,  satellites capture the impact of extreme heat and drought.

How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.

The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The unique geography is of course manmade, the result of peat mining.…

So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

Chinese researchers are testing DREADDs, a gene therapy to turn down neuronal activity, in the clinic

Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

Hello, Thunderbird community and followers of the blog! This is Jesse from the design team. Today’s post is about our recent journey in redesigning the calendar portion of Thunderbird, and what you can expect us to deliver in the near future. The calendar…

AI 3D modelling for makers. Describe a bracket, clip, holder, or replacement part — get a print-ready STL in seconds. Free, no account needed.

The IEEE Life Fellow is remembered as a founder of the field

First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.

For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh to make it crash loudly…

French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion’s share of Israel’s FARA-registered foreign influence work in the U.S., appears to have stood up an “institute” aimed at feeding LLMs positive information about Israel via one of its subcontractors.

Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."

A free Android logbook for blood sugar. No account, no internet, no cloud — everything stays on the phone.