Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.

Gerald Frost on George Orwell in Spain.

We need to separate our jobs and where we live.

Reinforced concrete is everywhere. But unlike plain concrete, which can last for centuries, reinforced concrete can deteriorate in decades as the reinforcing bars succumb to rust.

Attempting to politely correct misinformation on Twitter can have negative consequences, leading to even less-accurate tweets and more toxicity from the people being corrected, according to a study co-authored by MIT scholars.

Cell phones and electric cars rely on the mineral, causing a boom in demand. Locals are hunting for this buried treasure—but are getting almost none of the profit.

What Belarus did, while illegal, is not unprecedented. The dangerous tactic was pioneered by the same U.S. and E.U. officials now righteously condemning it.

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The so-called first 'television war', the Vietnam war was defined and shaped by cameras and the bold photographers behind them.

Scans show some brains have a stronger link between the part that processes sound and that which controls the mouth and throat

"By myself? A missing piece cannot roll by itself." "Have you ever tried?" asked the Big O

A hi-def test for your ears (and your audio equipment): Listen to these songs and see if you can tell the difference between an MP3 and an uncompressed audio file.

GalaxyKate - maker of many interesting things

Thousands of Google Chrome extensions available on the official Chrome Web Store are tampering with security headers on popular websites, putting users at risk of a wide range of web-based attacks.

Now the biggest barrier to change is the will of our politicians to take serious climate action.

M1RACLES (CVE-2021-30747) is a covert channel vulnerability in the Apple Silicon “M1” chip.