The process by which women acquire cells from a fetus, called fetal microchimerism, is not as rare as once thought, but remains quite mysterious.

2006 film by Mike Judge

Metal has begun to replace this distinctive latticework, which is seen on towers across the city. Daisy Pak, a rare female bamboo master, takes pride in the ancient craft.

Once high-flying group founded by Sachin Dev Duggal says its was unable to recover from ‘past decisions’

 

Despite advances, VR can still be a dizzying, nauseating experience. Can we break the curse of cybersickness? New research offers hope with techniques users can try themselves: balance like a flamingo, lean into turns, or vibrate your inner ear. Will these…

The development of DNS demonstrates an impressive journey from its initial basic form into a modern distributed system which provides high resilience. The internet initially used a basic centralized text file named HOSTS.TXT for its operations. The rapid…

The answer hinges on how severe and prolonged the economic disruption becomes—particularly for jobs.

Exclusive: The Guardian and Liberty Investigates find police in England and Wales believe expansion is likely after 4.7m faces scanned in 2024

We should cease teaching frequentist statistics to undergraduates and switch to Bayes. Doing so will reduce the amount of confusion and over-certainty rife among users of statistics.

For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?

One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to …

This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals tal…

Sneak in exercises to keep you powered up during your busiest days.

About four years ago (?!) I wrote a blog post called The Great Composite Comparison, where I compared a number of methods for upscaling composite video. At t...

It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…

Tech lovers are trading in their smartphones for dumb phones and embracing 'appstinence'

The 28-year-old was brought to the Nolita home, where he was held and tortured for several weeks, according to sources.